as in to regain
to get again in one's possession
needed to retrieve the book from my friend so I could return it to the library
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Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
In the most common scenarios reported, parents were unable to reopen the doors of their Tesla to retrieve a child from the back seat or to place them in the back seat.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
The operation, aimed at wiping Hamas out and retrieving the hostages, has killed at least 64,000 people living in the Gaza Strip and left much of the two million-strong population homeless and on the brink of starvation.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
The team successfully demonstrated the system’s ability to quickly store and retrieve a digital image, proving its functionality for fast, large-scale data storage.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
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Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
In the most common scenarios reported, parents were unable to reopen the doors of their Tesla to retrieve a child from the back seat or to place them in the back seat.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
The operation, aimed at wiping Hamas out and retrieving the hostages, has killed at least 64,000 people living in the Gaza Strip and left much of the two million-strong population homeless and on the brink of starvation.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
The team successfully demonstrated the system’s ability to quickly store and retrieve a digital image, proving its functionality for fast, large-scale data storage.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
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The weaknesses Even if Sorokin can handle whatever the Islanders throw his way, this team still has a lot of work to do to regain its identity as a defensively sound team.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Russian hackers crippled the Colonial Gas Pipeline for five days in 2021, causing shortages at 16,200 gas stations along the East Coast and widespread consumer anxiety before the company paid a $5 million ransom to regain access to its computers.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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Seventy-six men ultimately fled Stalag Luft III prison, and all but three—including Churchill—were recaptured within days.—
Naomi Rougeau,
Robb Report,
21 Sep. 2025
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But Redford had also watched Hollywood grow more cautious and controlling during the 1970s and wanted to recapture the creative spirit of the early part of the decade.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Brentford never really recovered.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Unfortunately for Mahomes, that pass also was backwards and Giants linebacker Bobby Okereke recovered the ball.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
22 Sep. 2025
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It’s been about rewriting the narrative of Black presence in the sportswear industry, reinvesting in our communities, and reclaiming power through design, storytelling, and ownership.—
Essence,
Essence,
19 Sep. 2025
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Her work recasts Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces with Black protagonists, reclaiming a space in Western art history that has long excluded the Black experience.—
Yola Robert,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Retrieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrieve. Accessed 24 Sep. 2025.
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