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adjective

as in saved

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verb

past tense of retrieve
as in recaptured
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 retrieved
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The frameworks that get published are the frameworks that get retrieved. — Camden Kaminsky, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Then, 36 hours before the eggs are retrieved, the patient takes trigger medication such as Lupron, Ovidrel, Novarel or Pregnyl to initiate final egg maturation. — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026 Last month, Paul's office released a trove of journal entries from Fauci that were retrieved from government servers in recent months. — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 The couple allegedly pushed their children to the ground to prevent them from being struck by gunfire, and the man retrieved his own pistol, authorities said. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026 The gunman then retrieved a rifle from his Honda Civic as an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper inside the restaurant helped evacuate employees and customers while searching for the shooter. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026 But Stanton and others who spoke at the forum said Arizona has arguably done the most to prepare, storing well over a year’s worth of the state’s former river allocation underground to be retrieved by central Arizona cities when needed. — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Other common features include patch pockets into which items can easily be stashed away and retrieved, and softer constructions that typically do away with paddings, linings and sometimes leave the jacket completely unstructured. — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2026 His drive to right field went over the Tigers bullpen and was retrieved by a fan on the lawn. — ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retrieved
  1. saved
  2. recaptured
  3. recovered
  4. reclaimed
Adjective
  • But the tale of the shitty guy who uses his ‘saved’ status to avoid scrutiny of his current choices?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Spotify noted that the album is one of the most pre-saved album Countdown Pages in platform history, with more than five million presaves.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2026
Definition of saved
Verb
  • Should Flaco have been recaptured and returned to his tiny environment within the Central Park Zoo?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2026
  • None of Argentina’s players had been born when the country’s military dictatorship invaded the Malvinas in 1982, holding the islands for 73 days before British forces recaptured them in a war that killed 649 Argentine and 255 British troops.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Definition of recaptured
Adjective
  • The recovered paintings are Paul Cezanne’s Still Life with Cherries (1890), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s late-career Les Poissons (1917), and Henri Matisse’s Odalisque on the Terrace (1922).
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Authorities estimated the recovered property was worth approximately $250,000.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of recovered
Verb
  • Burger King has reclaimed its place as America’s second-largest burger chain, overtaking Wendy’s and trailing only McDonald’s in sales.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026
  • On her 43 acres of woods and reclaimed native prairie in rural Tazewell County, Katie VandenBerg walked the edge of her property, inspecting a line of oaks bordered by miles of corn and soybean fields.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of reclaimed

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