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The phrase "a bid to retrieve" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt or effort to recover something that has been lost or is inaccessible.
Example: "The organization launched a bid to retrieve the stolen artifacts from the museum."
Alternatives: "an effort to recover" or "an attempt to regain".
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Details of the text were identified late on Monday night following a bid to retrieve messages which Burn had sent during the siege but subsequently deleted.
Two ships with locator capabilities are searching a 240km (150 mile) path in a bid to retrieve the data recorder.
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Marks said he was "certainly sorry" – both that Faulkner's bid to retrieve her children was unsuccessful and that Nine staff were put at risk.
Another photographer showed people apparently running towards a burning property in an effort to retrieve possessions.
A yearning to retrieve a toothpick flag?
Then she has a plan to retrieve their lives.
It always takes him a minute to retrieve that name".
A park ranger shot the shark with a revolver, to retrieve the arm.
Pharaoh's daughter instructs a servant to retrieve the basket -- saving the baby's life.
A friend managed to retrieve most of them.
Hunters are required to make a reasonable effort to retrieve all killed or crippled birds.
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