retrieve
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The Israeli military stated that its forces had entered the village to provide security for an Israeli civilian and police trying to retrieve livestock.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Lawyers on Wednesday discussed when John Overdeck could retrieve belongings from the couple’s Short Hills, N.J. home, where Laura Overdeck still lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"There was nothing else I could retrieve, but that photo also means a lot."
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
"And I see this a lot in my patients, where they can only retrieve negative information from their memories."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Ye were asked to retrieve what was most important.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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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
The researchers conclude that tau should be viewed not only as a protein involved in Alzheimer's disease, but also as a fundamental regulator of how the brain organizes, stores, and retrieves lasting memories.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 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
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
In Las Anonas, the Red Cross retrieves a seventeen-year- old Honduran boy who lost his left leg.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Furious, Byfield retrieved his arm and insisted on burying it properly.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
In Nepal, rescuers have retrieved 1,341 bodies, while around 4,996 people remain missing, according to the disaster agency.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Daniel Vizcarra said a local golfer spotted the girl’s body floating down the Dominguez Channel on Tuesday and it was retrieved by deputies and firefighters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri spoke to a local, who is still waiting for his his wife's body to be retrieved as rescue efforts continue.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Quietly, Renn retrieved the bows and brushed off the wet.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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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
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said retrieving Iran’s uranium stockpile is a U.S. priority, but February negotiations failed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
“Actually, yeah. I do,” I said back, retrieving the ball from the grass.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
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