retrieval
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North Halmahera police chief Erlichson Pasaribu said that retrieval of the bodies, which are located at higher elevations, has been hampered by repeated eruptions, difficult terrain and strong blasts from the volcano.
From BBC • May 8, 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
By combining task based experiments with fMRI data, the team found no measurable difference in brain activity between successful episodic and semantic memory retrieval.
From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026
Once I’d healed from my retrieval, I asked Graham for a call to properly process our time together.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025
Perhaps, however, we are linked in circuits for the storage, processing, and retrieval of information, since this appears to be the most basic and universal of all human enterprises.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing retrieval
Psychology
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