Susan Orlean

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

American Journalist

Marc Benioff

Businesses cannot be extricated or disintermediated from the communities they serve. Businesses who do that will do that at their own peril. They will draw fire. And companies who are integrated will be lauded by their communities and not draw fire.

American Businessman

Julie Plec

There's a lot of storylines over the years where you feel like it's maybe meant to be more important than it ends up being, and that's because we jump ship, and you gracefully extricate yourself from that as well as you can.

American Producer

Eduard Shevardnadze

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

Politician

Leandra Medine

Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you're extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand.

American Author

Martha Nussbaum

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.

American Philosopher

Steven Erikson

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Canadian Novelist

Guy de Maupassant

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

French Writer

Gordon Gee

What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth.

American Educator

James Q. Wilson

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

American Politician

Often used when someone escapes from physical restraints or tight spaces.

Physical Escape

Used when creatively finding a way out of a complex situation or problem.

Problem Solving

Can describe escaping from non-physical problems, like social or emotional issues.

Metaphorical Use

Commonly used when someone evades a commitment or responsibility.

Avoiding Responsibility

Often associated with getting out of debts, loans, or investments.

Financial Context

Can mean relieving someone from a stressful or burdensome situation.

Emotional Relief

 around your home. Or say your cow does, or say your pig does, and then, say, it rains, and that footprint fills up with a little bit of water. That's it. You've created the perfect malarial mosquito habitat that's right outside your door. So it's not easy for us to extricate ourselves from these insects.

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 and I was thinking. And I tend to be a person who thinks too much and talks too little. And so I was thinking about how it might be great if I could just take all these noises -- like all these sounds of my thoughts in my head -- if I could just physically extricate them and pull them out in such a form

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 that could be a semi-permanent. So I took the trip. None of the disasters came to pass. There were some hiccups, sure. I was able to extricate myself from the business. I ended up extending that trip for a year and a half around the world, and that became the basis for my first book,

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 them introduce yourself that other person over there who looks like they're stuck in a conversation that they can't extricate themselves from we've all been there go over and it's just insinuate yourself in that conversation let's see throw them a

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 and see one just over the other edge of the termite mom I would go a little faster if I wasn't afraid of mounting us on a rock like I did yesterday during our rehearsal we had to get out and well extricate ourselves

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 as we try to extricate ourselves from this current financial crisis but what did he appeal to he did not happily follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and tell us to just go

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 sinks its fangs deep into a Seuss's flesh his survival depends on extricate in his hand what would you do in this situation

Extricate

To free or release from a difficult or tangled situation.

Often appears as...

To get out of a difficult situation or responsibility.

Often appears as...

Physical Escape

Problem Solving

Metaphorical Use

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