retrieve
verb (used with object)
to recover or regain.
retrieved
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past participleof retrieve.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof retrieve.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
retrieveverb (used with object)to recover or regain.
Example Sentences
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That is, it’s low if you go through the full process of having your eggs retrieved at 44, fertilized, and then an embryo implanted.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Several posts, which were retrieved through Google image cache, appeared on his now-deleted Instagram account the day of this week’s attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Indeed, I had blocked out most memories of that 2004 Fox reality train wreck until Carr’s documentary reached into my mind’s cobwebby attic and retrieved its cabinet of horrors.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
The paintings retrieved include "Madame Pichon" and "Coco lisant", a portrait of Renoir's young son Claude reading.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
All three of them retrieved their bikes and began walking them back toward the bike path.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
