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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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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

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

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

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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