as in reclamation
the act or process of getting something back
a law firm that has been involved in the retrieval of artworks that were plundered during the war
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Recent Examples of retrieval
Later he was pushed off the puck on the retrieval leading to Washington gaining possession.
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Omar White, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
If a camera is not within the budget, National Neighborhood Watch suggests buyers:
Opt to have a package delivered to a locker that requires a special code for retrieval.
—Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 25 Nov. 2024
Winnipeg’s power-play puck retrievals have also been furiously effective this season.
—Murat Ates, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
These embeddings enable LLMs to capture the semantics of text, supporting tasks like semantic search, text classification and similarity comparisons for efficient data processing and retrieval.
—Yuriy Gnatyuk, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Omar White, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
If a camera is not within the budget, National Neighborhood Watch suggests buyers:
Opt to have a package delivered to a locker that requires a special code for retrieval.
—Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 25 Nov. 2024
Winnipeg’s power-play puck retrievals have also been furiously effective this season.
—Murat Ates, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
These embeddings enable LLMs to capture the semantics of text, supporting tasks like semantic search, text classification and similarity comparisons for efficient data processing and retrieval.
—Yuriy Gnatyuk, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for retrieval
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retrieval
Noun
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Trump, a former businessman himself, has also highlighted tariffs and a reclamation of the Panama Canal in recent weeks.—
Addy Bink,
The Hill,
20 Jan. 2025
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The Capitals brought in Matt Roy and Logan Thompson, and bet on a few reclamation projects in Pierre-Luc Dubois, Jakob Chychrun and Andrew Mangiapane.—
Shayna Goldman,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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The success of big urban districts - 14 of which saw notable improvement in fourth-grade math when the nation as a whole saw only minor gains - can be credited to academic recovery efforts funded by federal pandemic relief, said Ray Hart, executive director of the Council of Great City Schools.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2025
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More news: Magic Johnson Reacts to Pat Riley Receiving Statue Outside Lakers Arena NBA Hall of Famer and Lakers legend Magic Johnson, Dodgers chairman Mark Walters, and 2028 Olympics organizer Casey Wasserman will lead a new private-sector initiative to support wildfire recovery in Los Angeles.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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And of equal importance, the Syrian government’s recapture of Aleppo, in 2016, marked a turning point in the civil war.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
3 Dec. 2024
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The facility, local police and federal health officials said the animals posed no risk to the public but warned people to stay away as to avoid agitating the creatures, which would make their recapture more difficult.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
11 Nov. 2024
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“Retrieval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrieval. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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