retrieve
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"We had no choice but to surrender" to our fate, he told reporters at the Bhayangkara Hospital in Surabaya, where he was waiting to retrieve the body of a colleague.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
He rushed back from a farmhouse holiday with friends, scrambling to retrieve the notes and textbooks he had already given to younger students in case he had to sit the exam again.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
During testing, the models are given fictional scenarios and told that a piece of information has been hidden on a different machine, and its objective is to break in and retrieve it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Wan was one of the men who arrived at Simpson’s door in March 2025 and attempted, unsuccessfully, to retrieve the babies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Osage were also able to retrieve at least a portion of the oil funds mismanaged over decades by the U.S. government.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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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
OpenAI, meanwhile, says it has shipped an update for Plus and Pro users that improves how memory finds and retrieves details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 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
And then in a move that’s remarkably similar to old, competent mom, she retrieves some duct tape from a drawer and sits down next to the basket ready to do some reconstructive surgery.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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Of the 10 percent who retrieved their frozen eggs, 34 percent became pregnant, and 29 percent had a live birth.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Detectives retrieved his license plate data and entered an alert in Flock's system.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Police say the following was retrieved from the home, totaling about $2.1 million:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Musselman joined SpaceX in 2022 as an engineering officer on a vessel that retrieved rocket parts that fell into the ocean off the Florida coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
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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
Like every child of an innkeeper, Malcolm had to work around the tavern, washing dishes and glasses, carrying plates of food or tankards of beer, retrieving them when they were empty.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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