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Extract

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To decompress. WinZip and other decompression utilities use the term to mean "pulling out" the original files from the compressed archive. See WinZip and data compression.
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With those words he began his first extract from the consul's letter.
The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Oh, ye only is it, ye dark, nightly ones, that extract warmth from the shining ones
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
The following extract from an ancient treatise on the art of poetry called `Ming-Chung' sets forth most clearly certain ideals to be pursued:
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
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