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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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"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

She said they were supposed to go to a political event and stopped by his hotel room to retrieve some paperwork.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

An agentic Siri will need to go beyond chatbot capabilities to retrieve personalized context on devices and execute multistep workflows.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

He immediately called the tech company’s support staff, who said Canopy could retrieve its files.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

The children were going down into the cave to retrieve her family’s treasure.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

LVO strokes are major medical emergencies and require the swift treatment with mechanical thrombectomy, a surgical procedure that retrieves the blockage.

From Science Daily May 17, 2024

Isobel retrieves the violet again, placing it across the room.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

Egg freezing involves stimulating the ovaries with hormone injections before mature eggs are surgically retrieved and preserved for possible future use through in vitro fertilization.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Shortly after, while visiting Hank and Marjorie, she retrieved their mail, including the purported water-company letter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

The charity said the 13 birds had been collected and taken away to be cleaned but several other "partially oiled" birds were spotted and proved unable to be retrieved.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

The one she retrieved during her first alpha test.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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 efforts are fueling anxieties across the banking and asset-management industries, where legions of professionals spend much of their days retrieving and synthesizing information.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 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

And once I began retrieving the lost pleasures of my childhood, I began to write stories for children.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos




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