retrieve
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What we need to retrieve is the three great ideals, the basic tenets of human beings, like great politics, great family and religion or spirituality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
These include warnings about trying to retrieve devices that slip into seat and pleas not to put lithium-ion devices in checked luggage.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Apart from his disastrous testimony, Blake could not produce the three Vitello’s employees who, he claimed, saw him return to the restaurant to retrieve his gun while someone else shot his wife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Later, police let them return to their house for half an hour to retrieve their medicine.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
I wished I could retrieve my backpack from the master—if he still had it.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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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
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
The trend is also alive and well on TikTok, where the popular hashtag “adult ballet” retrieves countless videos of women documenting their progress in the dance form.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
Scene: Maniac retrieves the wet newspaper from the living room.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
The charity said the 13 birds had been collected and taken away to be cleaned but several other "partially oiled" birds were spotted and proved unable to be retrieved.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
This was what Lincoln, his most powerful reader, retrieved during the Union’s death struggle with secession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He remembered the first missing page he’d retrieved in its glass case.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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
The agent, which is still in development, is currently helping Zuckerberg get information faster by retrieving answers that he would typically have to go through multiple layers of people to get.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
She combs her fingers through my hair, retrieving approximately ten thousand bobby pins.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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