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retrieval

[ri-tree-vuhl] / rɪˈtri vəl /


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The researchers plan to continue investigating how caffeine influences memory consolidation and memory retrieval.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

You can absolutely take a sick day for your egg retrieval in New York.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

However Wada said that move directly led to their retrieval of 24 terabytes of data from the Moscow lab in January and April 2019.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Marvell’s chips and accelerators should be even more valuable in a world driven by agentic AI, seeing as the technology requires continuous loops of reasoning, tool use, memory retrieval, and task coordination.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Ridgeway worked retrieval, heading north when constables sent word they’d captured a runaway from Virginia or North Carolina.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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