retrieve
Example Sentences
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“Every interaction drives the need to retrieve, process, and store more data.”
From Barron's
John Coale was attending an event at the British Embassy in Washington when the State Department called, with a request: Could he go to Belarus and retrieve a political prisoner with an American passport?
On a cabinet sit several framed photos from Ye-won's final days in Bangkok, retrieved from her phone, which was discovered at the crash site.
From Barron's
Anthonin says he was helping some other passengers retrieve their luggage at the back of the sinking ferry when he saw a Lao mother and her two children.
From BBC
This dramatized movie, however, seeks to retrieve something else: a spark of unignorable humanity from a media ecosystem of headlines and statistics that doesn’t always grasp how distancing it can be.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
