retrieve

Example Sentences

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This dramatized movie, however, seeks to retrieve something else: a spark of unignorable humanity from a media ecosystem of headlines and statistics that doesn’t always grasp how distancing it can be.

From Los Angeles Times

Vehicle owners are waiting to retrieve their cars after more than 30 firefighters tackled a large blaze in a hospital's multi-storey car park.

From BBC

While the players who performed admirably for O'Neill look at themselves in a mirror, Nancy might need to retrieve his discarded tactics board.

From BBC

The start-up transformed how companies and organizations stored, managed and retrieved huge volumes of data.

From Los Angeles Times

Along with team member Laura Clifton Byrne, an undergraduate at San Francisco State University, he also shadowed foraging chimpanzees, retrieving freshly dislodged fruits from beneath the canopy and measuring their alcohol content.

From Science Daily