retrieve

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The research, published in Optica, Optica Publishing Group's journal for high-impact research, shows that this new technique can increase how much information is stored while also making it easier to retrieve.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

The exhumation was done after the police obtained a court order to retrieve 14 bodies that were initially believed to have been buried at the site.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

She said she decided not to file an appeal after a judge denied her asylum claim and that an ICE agent and a social worker were dispatched to Florida to retrieve the girls.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

They can print documents, buy concert tickets, ship parcels, and retrieve online shopping orders from automated kiosks.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

I reached out to retrieve it from him, knowing by then that I hadn’t dropped it.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros