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retrieve

[ri-treev] / rɪˈtriv /


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Their daughters ran to a cafe to retrieve the life jacket and flotation ring used by Craig, who said: "I think the floating devices have to be closer to the front of the shore."

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

The 57-year-old cleaning lady said the mayor of Zarzuela de Jadraque gave her just seconds to retrieve her papers and the medicines she needed before fleeing her village home.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

An alumnus stomped down the road in his blazer to St John’s to retrieve the plate.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

What MarketWatch found was that it’s probably best to retrieve the data first, and then feed it into the AI tool of choice with the JPMorgan instructions.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

They did not retrieve the boat and row across the river.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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

OpenAI, meanwhile, says it has shipped an update for Plus and Pro users that improves how memory finds and retrieves details.

From The Wall Street Journal May 25, 2026

Researchers have developed a new holographic data storage method that records and retrieves information in three dimensions by combining three key properties of light -- amplitude, phase and polarization.

From Science Daily Mar. 29, 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

“There is water,” he says, and crosses to the other sixth-floor room and does not look at von Rumpel’s body in her bed and retrieves the second bucket.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Shortly after, while visiting Hank and Marjorie, she retrieved their mail, including the purported water-company letter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

This was what Lincoln, his most powerful reader, retrieved during the Union’s death struggle with secession.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

AFP joined conservationists, rangers and locals this month as they retrieved and replaced cameras and microphones in the forest.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Police say the following was retrieved from the home, totaling about $2.1 million:

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Brigit riffled inside and retrieved old styluses, a moldy Marveller-bar, and a huge skeleton key imprinted with a diamond and wrapped in thread.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

These cells are critical for storing and retrieving memories.

From Science Daily May 3, 2026

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 The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

After retrieving my shoes from the mudroom, I let myself out through the front door.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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