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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of retrieve.

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Examples

  • This photo was retrieved from a digital camera Harris-Moore nabbed from a Mercedes he had also stolen.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • And can the lad band's legions of fans be retrieved from the diaspora?

    Brother (No 880) Paul Lester 2010

  • A finders/keepers concept may not apply to property retrieved from the park land ….

    2009 March « Scavenging 2009

  • I still use a stone retrieved from the summit as a paperweight in my office.

    grimpette - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Though over 12,000 1873-CC dimes with no arrows were minted, most were apparently destroyed after passage of the Act. Some scholars speculate that the lone survivor was retrieved from a 1874 Assay Commission meeting by Mint Superintendent Archibald Loudon Snowden; the coin provenance has been traced from Snowden to famed collector Louis Eliasberg, Sr. (sold from that collection in the late 1990s).

    Liberty Seated Dime, Obverse Legend, 1860-1891 : Coin Guide 2009

  • A finders/keepers concept may not apply to property retrieved from the park land ….

    Strange Find in Ohio « Scavenging 2009

  • Makoto Yukimura is the creator of Planetes, published in English by Tokyopop though effectively out of print as it was among the titles Kodansha retrieved from the publisher.

    09 « October « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2009

  • Makoto Yukimura is the creator of Planetes, published in English by Tokyopop though effectively out of print as it was among the titles Kodansha retrieved from the publisher.

    License request day: Vinland Saga 2009

  • A finders/keepers concept may not apply to property retrieved from the park land ….

    2009 March 23 « Scavenging 2009

  • Nothing retrieved from the pond ever linked Hatfill, or anyone else, to the murders.

    The Wrong Man 2010

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