|EXAMPLE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES|
The word extricate has appeared in 43 Times articles over the past year, most recently in " Judge Gives a Victory to Tree Sitters in Berkeley Oaks " on June 19, 2008.
... A group of protesters who have occupied a stand of coastal oaks at the University of California, Berkeley, for 19 months claimed victory on Wednesday when a Superior Court judge ruled that a university project on the site must be temporarily delayed to address a lingering concerns about the project...
Earlier Wednesday, the scene at the grove became confrontational after workers dismantled at least one platform and cut several support lines used by the tree sitters, who are sustained by supplies brought by supporters and borne aloft with an elaborate web of pulleys.
Later, workers tried to extricate a woman in a wobbly crow's-nest attached to the top of one of the oaks, as she screamed, ''Go away!'' and violently shook her perch, about 100 feet high. ...
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