as in lineages
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a family of Italian extraction
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Recent Examples of extractions
Children received everything from exams and cleanings to crowns and extractions, all on site.
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Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
These extractions are passed to a risk analysis agent, which evaluates them against internal legal policies and regulatory templates to flag problematic or missing content.
—Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Currently, Dales said about 15% of the adoptable dogs have varying medical needs, many that are very treatable, such as diarrhea, eye infections, teeth extractions and skin issues.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
After multiple rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and tumor extractions, Allen went into remission the following year, though months later her CT scans showed her cancer had returned and spread to her lungs.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
These extractions are passed to a risk analysis agent, which evaluates them against internal legal policies and regulatory templates to flag problematic or missing content.
—Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Currently, Dales said about 15% of the adoptable dogs have varying medical needs, many that are very treatable, such as diarrhea, eye infections, teeth extractions and skin issues.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
After multiple rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and tumor extractions, Allen went into remission the following year, though months later her CT scans showed her cancer had returned and spread to her lungs.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extractions
Noun
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Slavers didn’t keep records of family lineages and the enslaved couldn’t do so.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Mingling and interbreeding Modern humans and Neanderthals share an ancestor that originated in Africa, but the two lineages diverged at least 500,000 years ago.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
28 Aug. 2025
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The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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Behind Chalet Alpina are two development teams with impressive pedigrees.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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This extra room also comes in handy on technical descents where the foot tends to smash into the front of the shoe.—
Will Porter,
Outside,
13 Sep. 2025
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This three-day program moves on to teaching more advanced techniques, like left-foot braking, handling ascents and descents, and weight transfer.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
9 Sep. 2025
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The origins of Godzilla’s name may remain a mystery, but there are no secrets related to its film escapades.—
Michael Taube,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Since pivoting from black and pinto beans to roasted and ground ones, Niccol has been trying to reverse Starbucks’s falling sales by returning to its coffeehouse origins.—
Molly Liebergall,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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And families and students aren’t just paying for tuition—they’re buying into an environment.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The primary goal of these UBI pilots is to help individuals and families through a transition period.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Brazil, the world's 10th largest economy, is seeing a sustained decline in births.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Extractions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extractions. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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