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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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When the Night Watch teams are able to retrieve a downed target, they often scour the wreckage to figure out new ways to jam them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

If you have time, retrieve original documents from the freezer before you evacuate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"My friend and neighbours live in this building. I came to help my friend retrieve some clothes and mattresses. He currently has no shelter or home," Mohannad al-Mashharawi told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

"In some cases, the robots can also pick up items, retrieve them from the sea and neutralize them. That could be one viable solution for the future."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

First order of business in this room is easy: retrieve Valentina.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

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

And then in a move that’s remarkably similar to old, competent mom, she retrieves some duct tape from a drawer and sits down next to the basket ready to do some reconstructive surgery.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

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

Nepal has buried more than 1,200 bodies, carefully numbering and tagging them so they can be retrieved if a DNA match is found.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 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

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

“That parrot will lead our pursuers here within minutes. We must find Gallery Seventeen at once,” Penelope said as she retrieved the Hixby’s Guide from her purse.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

It was tasked with retrieving information from software operated by a fictional company inside the testing environment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

“Why don’t we all try to make the spirit of Thanksgiving last year round?” my father suggests, retrieving his towel and shaking it out.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass




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