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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of reextract.
- adjective
extracted again
Etymologies
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Examples
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Penicillin, that precious chemical that had to be milked to its last droplet during World War II in 1939, the drug was reextracted from the urine of patients who had been treated with it to conserve every last molecule, was by the early fifties being produced in thousand-gallon vats.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Penicillin, that precious chemical that had to be milked to its last droplet during World War II in 1939, the drug was reextracted from the urine of patients who had been treated with it to conserve every last molecule, was by the early fifties being produced in thousand-gallon vats.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Penicillin, that precious chemical that had to be milked to its last droplet during World War II in 1939, the drug was reextracted from the urine of patients who had been treated with it to conserve every last molecule, was by the early fifties being produced in thousand-gallon vats.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The residue is then reextracted several times with alcohol and the alcohol extracts combined.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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