extrication

The rest were concerned with flooded basements, stuck elevators, rescue calls, and "extrication" - i.e., getting cats out of trees.

I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

And so the novel charts Polly’s slow, painful extrication from the suffocating coils of family happiness, or at least from the kind of picture-book happiness that she, and she alone, is expected to produce with unfailing perfection.

Family Happiness « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

And so the novel charts Polly’s slow, painful extrication from the suffocating coils of family happiness, or at least from the kind of picture-book happiness that she, and she alone, is expected to produce with unfailing perfection.

2008 October « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

'And her extrication is to be a certainty to me, that this has really happened?'

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

In his incomparable recollection of the American "extrication" from Vietnam his word former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger writes that the promise of "Vietnamization" served to confirm Hanoi "in its course of waiting us out."

Petraeus and Obama's Uncertain Trumpet 2010

He estimates that $40,000 in loose equipment will be needed for the truck, including hoses and hand tools such as extrication tools and breathing apparatuses.

greatfallstribune.com - SPORTS 2010

They all quickly cut to my awkward extrication from this clown car, but I could have cared less.

Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

Arab-Israeli peace will not stabilize Afghanistan or facilitate an extrication of U.S. forces from there.

Five myths about Middle East peace Aaron David Miller 2010

They all quickly cut to my awkward extrication from this clown car, but I could have cared less.

Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy … She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own … she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.

What Would Wilson Do? 2010