retrieve

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Along with team member Laura Clifton Byrne, an undergraduate at San Francisco State University, he also shadowed foraging chimpanzees, retrieving freshly dislodged fruits from beneath the canopy and measuring their alcohol content.

From Science Daily

The researchers also documented how the cells retrieved and recycled vesicles afterward, a process known as endocytosis.

From Science Daily

On returning the following day to retrieve some belongings, she said the flood had completely swallowed the house: "It's already sunk."

From BBC

Some of the stored seeds were never retrieved.

From Science Daily

Police searching the scene retrieved a discarded balaclava, took forensic samples from it, and Challis was linked to another crime – once again, by his DNA.

From BBC