'failed to retrieve' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone or something was not able to obtain something or some information that they were trying to get. For example, "The researchers failed to retrieve any data from the experiment."
Interestingly, 67% of dams that failed to retrieve pups during the pup retrieval test (compared to only 6% of dams that successfully retrieved pups) scattered their pups in the maternal behavior assay (p < 0.001), suggesting dams that scattered pups were unlikely to retrieve their pups.
Amānullāh failed to retrieve his throne and went into exile in Italy.
After fumbling the kickoff return, which he recovered, he gained 4 yards on 2 carries and failed to retrieve a catchable screen pass.
But when the defence asked for an independent re-test, officers failed to retrieve the samples and one officer suggested they had been destroyed.
The assault on Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas this summer drove them from Israel's northern border but failed to retrieve two captured soldiers.
She went for the handbag being carried by The Queen, who famously does not carry money on her person, and failed to retrieve anything.
Since the activation is observed even when a cue fails to retrieve the primed stimulus, it is generally associated with retrieval attempt, rather than the retrieval itself [ 12, 14, 15].
It is common knowledge that if a search fails to retrieve relevant information within a couple of seconds, most surfers will click away and try someplace else.
It causes your cells to fail to retrieve glucose from the blood, either because your pancreas isn't producing enough insulin or the body's cells ignore that insulin.
But even these complex algorithms may sometimes fail to retrieve the relevant information.
Therefore, the current data extraction approach can fail to retrieve events such as citizen movements and other important events that were informed only via social networks.
