retrieve
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Using the car’s license-plate number, Granby police tracked down the couple in Denver and drove about four hours round-trip to retrieve the pet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
A cancer survivor said he was screamed at by airport security staff and "made to feel like a criminal" after trying to retrieve his stoma supplies from his luggage.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
If you have time, retrieve original documents from the freezer before you evacuate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
When I walked around the back of the inn to retrieve Rostam, the elderly donkey had fallen asleep and breathed so rarely that for a second I feared the worst.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
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
The trend is also alive and well on TikTok, where the popular hashtag “adult ballet” retrieves countless videos of women documenting their progress in the dance form.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
Scene: Maniac retrieves the wet newspaper from the living room.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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That is, it’s low if you go through the full process of having your eggs retrieved at 44, fertilized, and then an embryo implanted.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Maria Vanda Lopes was preparing to pay her respects to a tiny terracotta statue of Our Lady, which according to legend was retrieved by fishermen in 1717.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
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
He offered up the washcloth, which he had just retrieved from the bottom of the tub.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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RAG is useful for retrieving facts, but lacks the capacity for intuitive expertise, according to Arora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
IVF involves stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs, retrieving them, fertilising them in a laboratory and then implanting the resulting embryo back into the womb.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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
Even this one easily executed task, retrieving the wallet of a man they’d held in a cage a few yards away, seemed, in the context, an act of great courage and empathy.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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