retrieve
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At the same time, their unusual electronic structure allows them to generate spin-polarized currents that can be used to retrieve information.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
EU Court of Justice advocate general Maciej Szpunar said Tuesday that a publisher’s rights could be infringed when chatbots retrieve and reuse material from online publications to generate answers to user queries under certain circumstances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The work includes excavation to retrieve a soil sample and debris removal, as well as installing sandbags to mitigate further damage from strong waves and coastal erosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Our mission is not to wipe out the gangs in Haiti" but to retrieve the four Salvadoran technicians, Bukele told journalists at a press conference late on Thursday, as he sought to address the concerns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
It would land not far from Bermuda, where the navy would then retrieve it.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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
Isobel retrieves the violet again, placing it across the room.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Giamanco retrieved a handgun from his vehicle and called emergency services.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
I retrieved it and flipped it back to him.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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Rikardsen then waited eight hours for the bear to move away before retrieving the camera and reviewing the images.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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 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
I climbed out of the car in front of Dorothy’s house, retrieving my sled from the trunk.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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