retrieve
Example Sentences
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Active struggle—retrieving, connecting, questioning—builds durable knowledge.
UN staff have been largely unable to carry out field work and UN agencies are having difficulty retrieving aid shipments from Havana's airports.
From Barron's
"Our teams continue to follow up legitimate leads regarding the location of Samba, however, we have so far been unable to find and retrieve her," said chief executive Laura Read.
From BBC
The exhumation was done after the police obtained a court order to retrieve 14 bodies that were initially believed to have been buried at the site.
From BBC
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
