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retrieval

[ri-tree-vuhl] / rɪˈtri vəl /


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Marvell’s chips and accelerators should be even more valuable in a world driven by agentic AI, seeing as the technology requires continuous loops of reasoning, tool use, memory retrieval, and task coordination.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

At the time of Santos’ egg retrieval, Acacio had been under investigation by the state medical board for months, records show.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

"All response teams remain fully engaged in search and retrieval efforts to locate the remaining missing persons," Cebu Mayor Nestor Archival said in a Facebook post on Friday.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

One focus was the hippocampus, a deep-brain region central to memory formation and retrieval and often affected early in neurodegeneration.

From Science Daily • Dec. 9, 2025

Perhaps, however, we are linked in circuits for the storage, processing, and retrieval of information, since this appears to be the most basic and universal of all human enterprises.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas