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The phrase "articles were retrieved" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the process of obtaining or accessing articles, typically in research or academic settings.
Example: "After conducting a thorough search, the relevant articles were retrieved from the database for further analysis."
Alternatives: "articles were obtained" or "articles were accessed".
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Full-text articles were retrieved afterward.
All potentially relevant articles were retrieved and reviewed.
Altogether 56 articles were retrieved from the Scopus database.
A total of 925 articles were retrieved and 92 were selected for review.
Abstracts of relevant articles were reviewed independently using predetermined criteria, and appropriate articles were retrieved.
Potentially relevant articles were retrieved and saved in an EndNote library.
After obtaining a sufficient number of abstracts, full articles were retrieved for the final selection process.
A total of 2346 articles were retrieved from our search of published literature.
A total of 1631 articles were retrieved after the search of four databases.
Once potentially adequate abstracts were selected, full articles were retrieved in a second final selection process.
A total number of 267 articles were retrieved from six search engines/libraries (Fig. 1).
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