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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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The Israeli military stated that its forces had entered the village to provide security for an Israeli civilian and police trying to retrieve livestock.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Lawyers on Wednesday discussed when John Overdeck could retrieve belongings from the couple’s Short Hills, N.J. home, where Laura Overdeck still lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

"There was nothing else I could retrieve, but that photo also means a lot."

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

"And I see this a lot in my patients, where they can only retrieve negative information from their memories."

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

But it is my duty to retrieve Fly.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

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 gets up and retrieves a small cloth bag from her desk drawer.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

In Nepal, rescuers have retrieved 1,355 bodies, while around 4,996 people are missing, according to the disaster agency.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

Furious, Byfield retrieved his arm and insisted on burying it properly.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

Daniel Vizcarra said a local golfer spotted the girl’s body floating down the Dominguez Channel on Tuesday and it was retrieved by deputies and firefighters.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

“There you go,” he said as he retrieved a prize from the chute.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Brigit riffled inside and retrieved old styluses, a moldy Marveller-bar, and a huge skeleton key imprinted with a diamond and wrapped in thread.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

IVF involves stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs, retrieving them, fertilising them in a laboratory and then implanting the resulting embryo back into the womb.

From BBC Jun. 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

The danger arises when people believe that the model is retrieving truth rather than generating likelihoods.

From Salon May 12, 2026

These cells are critical for storing and retrieving memories.

From Science Daily May 3, 2026

On retrieving the bowl after the day’s work, he unwrapped the cloth as he always did, to check on the bowl’s contents.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park




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