Fix
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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After he does this, he walks away laughing at what he's done while the poor little kids cry or shout angrily at him, hopelessly unable to do anything to fix or retrieve their toy.
Source: Threw My Bike on the Roof -
In the Bad Future/Present, it stays a ruined Lethal Lava Land until you retrieve and fix a certain artifact to prevent a local cataclysm from happening.
Source: Bad Future -
Played straight in the two-parter "Moebius" when an attempt to go back in time to retrieve a piece of technology results in screwing up the timeline and having to go back in time again to fix it.
Source: Set Right What Once Went Wrong
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Retrieve and Fix. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/retrieve
Fix & Retrieve. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/retrieve>.
Retrieve or Fix. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/retrieve.
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