The phrase "able to retrieve a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability of accessing or obtaining something, often in a technical or informational context.
Example: "The software is able to retrieve a user's data from the database quickly and efficiently."
Alternatives: "capable of accessing a" or "able to obtain a".
But the police were able to retrieve a semen sample from the woman's blouse.
While investors believed they had $65bn of savings, liquidators have only been able to retrieve a few million dollars.
If you no longer have access to your @stanford.edu email account, you are not able to retrieve a coupon code.
Still, with this method, users should at least be able to retrieve a short list of bottles from which to choose.
It would take about ten days before agents were able to retrieve a complete record of the messages saved on the laptop, showing dates, senders, and recipients.
In rare cases, family members have been able to retrieve a body, but the report noted that in each known instance it "bore marks of extensive torture".
The team used the system to record an image of Albert Einstein, and with the help of an improved computer algorithm that interprets the stored data, they were able to retrieve an identical image, without any apparent errors.
The very earliest understanding of object permanence emerges, as the child is now able to retrieve an object when its concealment is observed.
The child is now able to retrieve an object when it is hidden several times within his or her view, but cannot locate it when it is outside their perceptual field.
This methodology ensures that regardless whether an assay has a UniProt Accession, GenPept ID, RefSeq ID or GeneID etc. specified for an assay, we were able to retrieve all bioactivites with a defined target the same as indicated by the UniProt accession.
Jowell told ITV News: "The police hold whatever information they were able to retrieve as a result of their inquiries but, without a court order, they can't give out information to me and obviously what I'm concerned about is how, which of my friends, my family, were also hacked into at the same time.
