Example Sentences
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Shortly after, while visiting Hank and Marjorie, she retrieved their mail, including the purported water-company letter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Only some of the embezzled goods which formed part of the final charges admitted by the ex-SNP chief executive have been retrieved.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Musselman joined SpaceX in 2022 as an engineering officer on a vessel that retrieved rocket parts that fell into the ocean off the Florida coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"He was retrieved from the water by another person who was in the water with him at the time of the attack," Queensland Police Inspector Elaine Burns said in a news briefing.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
Nhamo retrieved the tortoise, which had wedged itself between two guinea-pig pens.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
