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retrieve in English:

1. to find and bring back something



English word "retrieve"(to find and bring back something) occurs in sets:

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2. recover


Is it true that you recover from colds when you give them to someone else?
I didn't have time to recover before I came down with another horrible cold.
fully recovered
He's been battling hepatitis for 6 months now, but it looks like he's just starting to recover.
The doctors didn't expect my sister to recover as well as she did.
I hope you consider my request for a day off this Tuesday 8th. If possible, I'd appreciate you letting me recover those hours any other day.
An operation on his throat helped him recover from the pneumonia, but it left him without his voice.
It was while she was recovering from the bus accident that she began painting.
Antibiotics destroy bacteria and help us recover from an ilness or infection.
The footballer had to retire after receiving an injury from which he never recovered.
Do you think you can recover the lost files? Install this program to recover lost data. Don't worry, our company will recover soon.
They are recovering in the same hospital.
Do you think you can recover the lost files?
She recovered the use of her fingers after the operation.

3. to find something and bring it back



4. later


Maybe later.
Sometimes, if I look at a forest of trees, I get in a trance and don't even realize until minutes later.
Roger Miller learned to play the guitar and the violin. Much later, he learned to play the drums.
Years later, Europeans established colonies in the coastal areas.
I am staying with my uncle for the time being, but later I will move to a small apartment.
At first the job looked good to Tom, but later it became tiresome.
I met Tom before I graduated from high school, but didn't meet Mary until many years later.
An experiment, I would learn much later, when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.
Later, Chris felt ashamed and apologized and Beth forgave him.
Later, the nurse told me she had done her best to make me well.
Later, in high school, I would take chemistry the way I took vitamin pills.
It was a terrible confusion; Sue slipped later in the water. They're all mad at you.
Later, it happened that there was some gossip at home, and my mother suspected that she had written something improper; after that she would not have her letters written for her.
In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did.
All were imprisoned by the Allies after the war and later sentenced to death or given long prison terms for war crimes.

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5. bring back


Do you bring back souvenirs from places you, ve been to?
bring back memories
He’s planning to bring back disco music.