as in regains
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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Recent Examples of retrieves
If the system retrieves academic papers, responses might become more formal.
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ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Tamsin, matter-of-fact, pulls on her dress and retrieves her swimsuit.
—Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Its multi-agent system retrieves insights not just from code but also from emails, Slack messages, documentation, and project notes, while a central reasoning agent synthesizes those findings into coherent responses to developer queries.
—Truebridge Capital, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
That is until someone retrieves the ball from the hood and throws it, delighting the two.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Tamsin, matter-of-fact, pulls on her dress and retrieves her swimsuit.
—Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Its multi-agent system retrieves insights not just from code but also from emails, Slack messages, documentation, and project notes, while a central reasoning agent synthesizes those findings into coherent responses to developer queries.
—Truebridge Capital, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
That is until someone retrieves the ball from the hood and throws it, delighting the two.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retrieves
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Perhaps one of them emerges as the prolific goalscorer that a Premier League title-winning Chelsea team likely needs, or perhaps Maresca can create a collective alchemy that recaptures the peculiar magic of that City team in 2020-21.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Norris barely recovers to finish P9.—
Rob Reed,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Altilium’s EcoCathode process recovers more than 95% of cathode metals and over 99% of graphite from battery waste.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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What To Know Within the results showing Americans' new tilt toward wanting the war to end quickly whether Ukraine reclaims lost territory or not, there is a divide along party lines.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Gabrielle Nadig, DaCosta, and Thompson herself, HEDDA emerges as both homage and reinvention—an exploration of desire and destruction that reclaims a timeless character for a new generation.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Retrieves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrieves. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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