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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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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

One issue is Gaza authorities’ woefully reduced resources to search and retrieve bodies from the rubble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Other men tried to retrieve some of their own personal items abandoned in the rush, particularly books.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

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

Researchers found that astrocytes in this area play a direct role in how the brain learns what to fear, retrieves those memories, and importantly, learns when those fears are no longer relevant.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 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

In Las Anonas, the Red Cross retrieves a seventeen-year- old Honduran boy who lost his left leg.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Several posts, which were retrieved through Google image cache, appeared on his now-deleted Instagram account the day of this week’s attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Nepal has buried more than 1,200 bodies, carefully numbering and tagging them so they can be retrieved if a DNA match is found.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Indeed, I had blocked out most memories of that 2004 Fox reality train wreck until Carr’s documentary reached into my mind’s cobwebby attic and retrieved its cabinet of horrors.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

They retrieved the bodies of Nadhira Al Harthy, the first Omani woman to climb Everest, and Pur Bahadur Gurung, a Nepalese climber who had summited 12 of the world's 14 highest peaks.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

I retrieved it and flipped it back to him.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman

RAG is useful for retrieving facts, but lacks the capacity for intuitive expertise, according to Arora.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

"Arthur is one of the best at retrieving balls and staying in the points," said Dimitrov's coach Jamie Delgado.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

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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