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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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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

Researchers evaluated verbal fluency, or the ability to quickly retrieve and produce words, along with working memory, which allows people to temporarily hold and use information.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

El Salvador has deployed more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti as part of a mission to retrieve four nationals who went missing in the Caribbean country almost two weeks ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

I retrieve the candle from the bedside table and make my way into the dark hallway.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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 have developed a new holographic data storage method that records and retrieves information in three dimensions by combining three key properties of light -- amplitude, phase and polarization.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 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

Without waiting for an answer, Molly gets up and retrieves her laptop from her backpack.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

Maria Vanda Lopes was preparing to pay her respects to a tiny terracotta statue of Our Lady, which according to legend was retrieved by fishermen in 1717.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 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

Once the front door banged shut behind me, I retrieved the paper from my basket and sighed at the title.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

RAG is useful for retrieving facts, but lacks the capacity for intuitive expertise, according to Arora.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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 danger arises when people believe that the model is retrieving truth rather than generating likelihoods.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

We each defended our own target and attempted to prevent the other side from retrieving the sticks that had been thrown over.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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