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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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When the Night Watch teams are able to retrieve a downed target, they often scour the wreckage to figure out new ways to jam them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

If you have time, retrieve original documents from the freezer before you evacuate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

I reach into my rucksack and retrieve a letter from Karl's mother, Angela Bushby.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

"My friend and neighbours live in this building. I came to help my friend retrieve some clothes and mattresses. He currently has no shelter or home," Mohannad al-Mashharawi told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

To retrieve the astronaut safely, we had to make sure that we understood the exact place and time that space capsule would touch down.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

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

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

Mom retrieves a credit card from her wallet to pay for this one.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

Indeed, I had blocked out most memories of that 2004 Fox reality train wreck until Carr’s documentary reached into my mind’s cobwebby attic and retrieved its cabinet of horrors.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

They retrieved the bodies of Nadhira Al Harthy, the first Omani woman to climb Everest, and Pur Bahadur Gurung, a Nepalese climber who had summited 12 of the world's 14 highest peaks.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Otto retrieved the yearbook from his backpack and showed Petey the old drama club photo.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

"Arthur is one of the best at retrieving balls and staying in the points," said Dimitrov's coach Jamie Delgado.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

After quietly retrieving it, they unrolled the yarn, removed the agent messages hidden inside, and took them to Washington’s headquarters.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen


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