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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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She figured an employee had left something and had gone in to retrieve it, but no one was inside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 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

You retrieve it by verifying your voter registration here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

"The key insight was to go back to the mathematics and ask whether there was a fundamentally cleaner way to retrieve spectra," said Dr. Chunhui Yao, a lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

“I’m putting in a formal request to be allowed to retrieve the Black Key and bring it under our protection,” says Magnus.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

He watches as he crosses into the foyer, retrieves his grey top hat and silver cane from the butler, and leaves by the front door.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"He did fight back and retrieved his card, with the perp scuttling away empty-handed," she wrote, warning people to be "super vigilant" out there.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 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

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

Nepal has buried more than 1,200 bodies, carefully numbering and tagging them so they can be retrieved if a DNA match is found.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

She called the Osage chief, and Anna’s skull was retrieved and, at a quiet ceremony, interred with her other remains.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The bots appear to have been tasked with looking up publicly available information, but resorted to extreme techniques when presented with obstacles in retrieving that data, Howard-Jones found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

Lowering my bike to its side, I took off my backpack and set it on the wheel, my eyes fixed on Digger, who was retrieving the basketball and still hadn’t said a word.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings


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