yank matched portion of a selection of lines

I have a buffer open. I hit /, put in a search, and the matched text, which is the text I am interested in, is highlighted.

How do I yank that text, and only that text, in other words, not whole lines? Bonus points if I can also restrict it to a selection of lines, by number.

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