retrieval
Example Sentences
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The team used a specialist retrieval system to access the airbag control module – where a snapshot of electronic data, triggered by the crash, revealed speeds, accelerator position, steering wheel angle and brake pedal application.
From BBC
The women returned to the clinic that month for Michelle’s egg retrieval.
"We were ordered to temporarily stop the search, rescue and retrieval at 3 pm today," she said.
From Barron's
Because the egg retrieval process is involved, and not all will yield healthy embryos, medical professionals make extra, ultimately discarding those that are not used.
From Salon
These and other memory types require different patterns of encoding, consolidation and retrieval by the brain.
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