Example Sentences

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County officials say he may have been retrieving an item that fell down the shaft.

From Washington Times • Jan. 10, 2019

For their part, the Soviets have been retrieving some of their water for years, condensing it from the exhaled, humid air in the spacecraft.

From Time Magazine Archive