retrieve
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These include warnings about trying to retrieve devices that slip into seat and pleas not to put lithium-ion devices in checked luggage.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
During testing, the models are given fictional scenarios and told that a piece of information has been hidden on a different machine, and its objective is to break in and retrieve it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Later, police let them return to their house for half an hour to retrieve their medicine.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
An alumnus stomped down the road in his blazer to St John’s to retrieve the plate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
He stooped to retrieve a fancy carved walking stick that was propped against one of the balloon’s anchoring stakes.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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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
OpenAI, meanwhile, says it has shipped an update for Plus and Pro users that improves how memory finds and retrieves details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Researchers found that astrocytes in this area play a direct role in how the brain learns what to fear, retrieves those memories, and importantly, learns when those fears are no longer relevant.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 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
“There is water,” he says, and crosses to the other sixth-floor room and does not look at von Rumpel’s body in her bed and retrieves the second bucket.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Of the 10 percent who retrieved their frozen eggs, 34 percent became pregnant, and 29 percent had a live birth.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
They said they had retrieved as many bodies as they could immediately after the attack and were relieved to be able to give others a proper burial.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Police say the following was retrieved from the home, totaling about $2.1 million:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Musselman joined SpaceX in 2022 as an engineering officer on a vessel that retrieved rocket parts that fell into the ocean off the Florida coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Then he knelt, retrieved mittens from my bag, and gently slid them over my hands, carefully adjusting the cuffs under my sweater sleeves.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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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
“Oh, my basketball went into the bushes by your garage. I was just retrieving it.”
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
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