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From that vast pool of data, researchers were able to pluck a few nuggets of insight: people with visual impairments are, for instance, more likely to be friends with each other.

"[Prior to the idea for Kinect] we were looking at all kinds of things speculatively, some of the things we never thought they would particularly make products," says Blake. "But the Kinect people approached us and because we had ideas at our fingertips we were able to pluck one off the shelf – the one that we thought would fit – and it did.

You've got to be able to pluck the goose; you don't want to kill it".

You won't get enough basil for pesto, but you will be able to pluck leaves or sprigs.

Hiten Madhani studies how genome cutting machines in cells, called spliceosomes, are able to pluck genes away from other sequences of "letters" in strands of RNA.

For one thing, the bosses of renewable-energy start-ups need to understand enough about the science to be able to pluck scientists from obscurity.

The magical promise of bells is that we might be able to pluck the past from the very airwaves around us.

In the plan's most basic form, ABC would have been able to pluck a game from the CBS and Fox Sunday afternoon schedules.

Users, Mr. Kundra said, will be able to pluck the source data from the Web site and do their own analyses.

For example, the military might have radio spectrum it uses for communicating at a bombing test range, but when that test range is not in use, a smartphone would be able to pluck a signal from that spectrum.

In an interview with The New York Times in 1988, Dr. Ruddle spoke enthusiastically of one of the great virtues of being able to pluck genes from one creature and deposit them into another: efficiency.