as in reclamation
the act or process of getting something back
a law firm that has been involved in the retrieval of artworks that were plundered during the war
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Recent Examples of retrieval
Winnipeg’s power-play puck retrievals have also been furiously effective this season.
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Murat Ates, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
These embeddings enable LLMs to capture the semantics of text, supporting tasks like semantic search, text classification and similarity comparisons for efficient data processing and retrieval.
—Yuriy Gnatyuk, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Support chatbots came next, at 31%, followed by enterprise search and retrieval, data extraction and transformation, and meeting summarization.
—Hayden Field, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024
Instead of trying the food retrieval that had been trained on, the immigrants used the resident solution on their first try.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Murat Ates, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
These embeddings enable LLMs to capture the semantics of text, supporting tasks like semantic search, text classification and similarity comparisons for efficient data processing and retrieval.
—Yuriy Gnatyuk, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Support chatbots came next, at 31%, followed by enterprise search and retrieval, data extraction and transformation, and meeting summarization.
—Hayden Field, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024
Instead of trying the food retrieval that had been trained on, the immigrants used the resident solution on their first try.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retrieval
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In fact, Anderson’s reclamation of her career parallels a pivotal scene in the film.Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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In Virginia a state report last year estimated his shuttered mines face $230 million in reclamation liabilities, far more than any other miner in the state.Christopher Helman, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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This procedure is typically painless, and recovery is minimal.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 4 Jan. 2025
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The first-stage booster flew for the ninth time making another recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions, the 250th time SpaceX had used a droneship for a successful recovery.Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
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And of equal importance, the Syrian government’s recapture of Aleppo, in 2016, marked a turning point in the civil war.Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
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The facility, local police and federal health officials said the animals posed no risk to the public but warned people to stay away as to avoid agitating the creatures, which would make their recapture more difficult.David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2024
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“Retrieval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrieval. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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