retrieve
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The work includes excavation to retrieve a soil sample and debris removal, as well as installing sandbags to mitigate further damage from strong waves and coastal erosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Our mission is not to wipe out the gangs in Haiti" but to retrieve the four Salvadoran technicians, Bukele told journalists at a press conference late on Thursday, as he sought to address the concerns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Dima described scenes of "girls, boys, parents, grandmothers" walking down the streets of the red zone carrying suitcases and bags, returning to their flats to see what they could retrieve.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"The key insight was to go back to the mathematics and ask whether there was a fundamentally cleaner way to retrieve spectra," said Dr. Chunhui Yao, a lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
She’d gone through so much to retrieve that statue of Athena.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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I asked Arora how Deep Cogito’s approach differs from other techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation, which retrieves relevant proprietary data and business context and provides it to an AI model at inference time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Apple needs to “evolve Siri into an agent that understands intent, retrieves context, calls apps and completes workflows,” Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan wrote in a note last week.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026
It is also a gesture of trust; the person holding the mic treats the responsibility as sacred and does not move until Cave retrieves the microphone a few bars later.
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
Corby retrieves the bag and starts the car.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
She kneels down and retrieves a pot from one of the lower cupboards.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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"He did fight back and retrieved his card, with the perp scuttling away empty-handed," she wrote, warning people to be "super vigilant" out there.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
That is, it’s low if you go through the full process of having your eggs retrieved at 44, fertilized, and then an embryo implanted.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Several posts, which were retrieved through Google image cache, appeared on his now-deleted Instagram account the day of this week’s attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Indeed, I had blocked out most memories of that 2004 Fox reality train wreck until Carr’s documentary reached into my mind’s cobwebby attic and retrieved its cabinet of horrors.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
A bellman retrieved their backpacks from the car and led them to Benji’s Presidential Suite on the top floor.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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In these runs, the models were asked questions—many of which could be answered by retrieving data on government websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Some ship owners may be reluctant to let their vessels return to such a volatile region after finally retrieving them, experts say.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
During the initial searches, the French government had been responsible for investigating the crash and Brazilian forces took charge of retrieving the bodies.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
The danger arises when people believe that the model is retrieving truth rather than generating likelihoods.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Our mom was over by the refreshments table, retrieving her dishes, and Ray was standing nearby to make sure we didn’t insult Mr. Abbas.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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