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to find and bring back something in English:

1. retrieve retrieve


I want to retrieve the letter.
You will be able to help them retrieve this money.
I retrieved the data I needed from his computer.
My men can retrieve the documents that have been stolen from you, but it won't be cheap.
I want to retrieve my grandmother's ring. (formal) I retrieved the data I needed from his computer. Passengers retrieve bag tag at kiosk
I promise I will retrieve your stolen necklace.
Her emails were retrieved from the company server.
You first retrieved from memory the cognitive program for multiplication that you learned in school, then you implemented it.
The energy is retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water.
Now, I don’t think we can deal with this on the phone, so I’m going to send a service engineer to see if they can retrieve your data.
An example of retrieve is for a dog to bring a bone back to his owner after the owner threw the bone into the air.
retrieve = get something back
retrieve data
He learnt of some very powerful magical object and went on a long journey to retrieve it.
Any DRO will naturally ensure that its contracts include penalties for violent crimes – so if you steal a car, your DRO has the right to use force against you to get the car back – and probably retrieve financial penalties to boot.

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

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