retrieve
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Brahms went so far as to retrieve letters he’d written to friends and destroy them, erasing the past “so far as he can.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
When the website's editors noticed and started deleting pages, the agents shared code designed to retrieve them.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Alongside the pearled axons, they found evidence of ultrafast endocytosis, a process through which nerve endings quickly retrieve membrane after releasing chemical messages.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
"My friend and neighbours live in this building. I came to help my friend retrieve some clothes and mattresses. He currently has no shelter or home," Mohannad al-Mashharawi told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Now then, the objective was to retrieve what was stolen, and we gave ye a hint that it was the most valuable thing you’d find.
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
He retrieves the first phone card from the friend who is holding it, and he sells it for food.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Much of what’s inside was retrieved from a dumpster, or scavenged before it landed in one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
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
I retrieved the tincture, and my mother packed it in a plastic grocery bag with the dried herbs.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
That area plays a key role in forming and retrieving what scientists call episodic memories: memories of specific events and experiences in a person's life.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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
Later, as Officer Delinko was retrieving his third thermos of coffee from the squad car, he thought he saw a series of small white flashes at the other end of the property.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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