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The phrase "are able to retrieve" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the capability or ability to access or obtain information or data.
Example: "The new software ensures that users are able to retrieve their files quickly and efficiently."
Alternatives: "can access" or "are capable of retrieving".
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They are able to retrieve information faster than tape and disk units, but cannot store as much data as either of them.
As singles players, Errani and Vinci are scramblers who return and read the game well and are able to retrieve lost causes.
Whether they are able to retrieve their former intimacy, or whether it has been chased away by the transformations wrought in them by their travels, provides a tentative resolution.
Boats fitted with special equipment are able to retrieve between two and eight tonnes of waste per trawl for cleaning and recycling, while other fishermen collect plastic debris mixed with by-catch and deposit it at special collection points.
It seems remarkable not how much journalists get wrong - a great deal - but that we are able to retrieve from the Whitehall swamp fragments of truth, and to present the waterlogged and bedraggled exhibits to readers and listeners.
TechRepublic points out that the robots were able to retrieve 100 items an hour, where humans are able to retrieve 400 items per hour, and the human would be unlikely to drop 67 of those items.
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You'd never be able to retrieve the information anyway.
Will Scott Morrison be able to retrieve the government's superannuation reforms?
They later were able to retrieve them with 99.99 percent accuracy.
But he was able to retrieve samples of ice that was a half million years old.
If that doesn't work, a data-rescue specialist may be able to retrieve the files.
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