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"managed to retrieve" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to mean the successful recover or obtain of something. Example: After extensive searching, he managed to retrieve his lost wallet.
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But some managed to retrieve a few possessions.
A friend managed to retrieve most of them.
They managed to retrieve the body, but Strange was already dead.
By Tuesday evening, rescuers had managed to retrieve only 30 bodies.
I managed to retrieve the missing emails and I photocopied them.
Finally someone managed to retrieve his reply to Riven: "On four nappies," he wrote.
Farooq managed to retrieve the pictures but Blyth urged him to put them away.
"Fortunately, apart from one line, we managed to retrieve the whole lot".
The officer also managed to retrieve my school books from the totaled car.
My husband and a shop managed to retrieve the data but my faith in his computer was forever lost.
Police helicopters (no, really) and a member of publisher HarperCollins' staff were scrambled and managed to retrieve the glasses.
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