retrieves

present tense third-person singular of retrieve
as in regains
to get again in one's possession needed to retrieve the book from my friend so I could return it to the library

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Recent Examples of retrieves Six months later, an internal AI assistant retrieves the ticket and tells a different team what to do. — Mani Padisetti, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026 In the highlight, Marshall retrieves the ball and oddly fires it back to the infield, fooling no one. — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Next, an autonomous drone retrieves the order and flies to the patient's address. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Ann successfully makes it out of the house and into the neighbor’s home, and retrieves all the antibiotics. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026 When a processor requests data, the chip instantly converts CXL memory requests into DDR5 commands, retrieves the required information, and sends it back in real time. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026 Ann Wang | Reuters Amon shared an example of an agent that instantly retrieves details of banking transactions, eliminating the need for a user to navigate through the app and manually locate the information. — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 16 June 2026
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Verb
  • The powertrain also recaptures waste energy; the ThermAssist heat management system boosts range by 7 percent and reduces the amount of energy needed to heat the car by 40 percent.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Oh, there’s a pipe dream out there, all about a once-great player who recaptures the old magic, but that’s hardly the appropriate mood.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The $39 million settlement recovers about 57% of those losses, according to the settlement.
    — Chase Jordan October 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Lanning said the team would be cautious as Moore recovers from the head injury.
    — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Pull-out trash or recycling bins can move inside a cabinet, which reclaims floor space and keeps the main work areas less crowded.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Traders should avoid this one until price reclaims the $270s, where the post-earnings gap began to fail.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Retrieves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrieves. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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