RETRIEVING Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

retrieving

verb

present participle of retrieve

as in regaining

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 retrieving Reading data from the cache is faster than retrieving it from main memory, and the agents used this timing difference to communicate. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2026 According to the criminal complaint, the woman called police for help retrieving belongings from a friend's house. — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 Surveillance video showed the suspect retrieving a bicycle, riding into a nature preserve and leaving the area in a Toyota FJ Cruiser, according to the affidavit. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 For example, retrieving information locally might be faster than searching through the cloud. — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 Text messages indicate Moore’s representative had initiated the process of retrieving his belongings in the hours after his arrest, and the school was quick to oblige. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Research from Bartholdi and Hackman found that most order-picking time goes to movement and searching—traveling alone accounts for about 55%—while only around 10% is spent actually retrieving the item. — Ben Hussey, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 Coupled with low-energy methods for storing and retrieving this data, and thermodynamically favorable ways of running specialized calculations, the future of computing is starting to look pleasantly cold and wet. — Mike McRae 22, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026 Matson hiding the safe and assisting Paul in retrieving it from the woods. — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

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New London officials are eagerly endorsing Spinnaker Real Estate Partners’ proposal as a way to draw some of the thousands of new employees being hired by nearby Electric Boat while recapturing a stretch of attractive waterfront at the marina.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
As opposed to infantile regression, the oceanic feeling can also be understood as a means of recapturing a repressed sense of relation, connection, affinities.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of recapturing

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Tank Dell had one reception for 43 yards and returned a punt for 14 yards in his return after missing almost two years recovering from a gruesome knee injury.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Hardy has spent the season recovering from a gunshot wound in his left leg.

— PJ Green October 25, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

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