retrieve
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If so, they may send it to their office near baggage claim where you can retrieve it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
I planned a trip to New York to retrieve the few belongings I’d left there, and when I told Matt, he asked whether he could take me out on a proper date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Trying to determine their state can cause that state to collapse, potentially erasing the very information scientists want to retrieve.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
At the same time, their unusual electronic structure allows them to generate spin-polarized currents that can be used to retrieve information.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
I retrieve an envelope and tilt it toward the moonlight to read the delivery information.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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The agent yells at the unidentified bystander and leaves him on the sidewalk while another agent retrieves the can from the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
The researchers conclude that tau should be viewed not only as a protein involved in Alzheimer's disease, but also as a fundamental regulator of how the brain organizes, stores, and retrieves lasting memories.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 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
As it gets really late, Dell retrieves one of his old lawn chairs from the second-floor balcony.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Because the material's magnetic behavior is linked to its electrical polarization, the stored information can also be retrieved magnetically.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 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
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
That afternoon, they retrieved their buried money, and that night in the loft, they stashed some in their shoes, some in their pockets, and some in their backpacks.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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Rikardsen then waited eight hours for the bear to move away before retrieving the camera and reviewing the images.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
Even this one easily executed task, retrieving the wallet of a man they’d held in a cage a few yards away, seemed, in the context, an act of great courage and empathy.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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