Ishmael Beah

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

Sierra Leonean Author

Steve Jobs

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

American Businessman

Ron Rash

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.

American Poet

Neil Jackson

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.

English Actor

Andrew Ross Sorkin

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

American Journalist

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

Nigerian Economist

Joel Edgerton

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

Australian Actor

Walter Kaufmann

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

German Philosopher

Groucho Marx

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

American Comedian

Edward Coke

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

English Businessman

Used when someone is physically going somewhere to bring back an item.

Physical Retrieval

Often used to make requests sound more polite or less demanding.

Request Politeness

Implies the action should happen right away, without delay.

Immediate Action

Indicates the price someone is willing to pay for something on the market.

Market Value

Can be used to suggest an item's worth even if not yet sold.

Potential Worth

Technical term for when a program gets data from another system.

Computer Jargon

Commonly used when describing actions of web browsers or apps.

Internet Usage

Can be used metaphorically to describe a strong or sudden impact.

Metaphorical Strike

Emphasizes the forcefulness of an action, especially in physical confrontations.

Action Intensity

Indicates that a person didn't take a straight path but a longer, indirect one.

Not Direct

This usage of 'fetch' is rarely used in contemporary speech and writing.

Outdated Usage

 that unless of course you want your backyard to look like that maybe you have a situation you want to have long grass and have I don't know why you'd want actually fetching grass in this it's a farm area I don't know or maybe you like the wilderness feel in your backyard but otherwise if you don't then

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 for how to deal with this mouse click, so it looks up the address for the mouse program and sends a request to the memory subsystem for instructions stored there. Each instruction in the mouse device driver is duly fetched and executed. And that's not nearly the end of the story!

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 fetch our roof at this point I'm trying to decide if it's drizzle has set in or not and decide whether or not the irritation of the roof but it does restrict us in certain respects we've got to be very careful with our vehicle positioning and the poles ruins the

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 kilos fetching you two or three dollars to feed seven people now imagine how it feels when you pull a bigger octopus out of the water not two or even three times the usual size imagine an octopus ten times the size at eight kilos people saw

Investing in fish...

 please do that'll be marvelous thank you very much that's the lab say about Earth Day anyway we can look at this tree this is Central Road that we're on now this was the road that we told those dear people to come and fetch us on but less

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 come out of grandma's brawl they do it and I fetch it try to visitation requires constant vigilance a watchful eye for rule breakers and today that effort has paid off what seemed like a standard visit between an inmate

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 cattles and goats you know the young boys the hurting gods for their fathers and girls are fetching water and collecting firewood that's the life in omaha there is no any civilization it's really isolated for many years

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 when maybe the locals of the people in the village are going to fetch water either in legs or in rivers from here I saw Sundberg a me first so they can support any this sorry my breakfast kikyo unit o worried about

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 affection for wolves it's been found that our cute canine counterparts can lower our stress levels even something as simple as playing fetch or stroking a dog increases levels of feel-good

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 Life can be harsh for poor girls from these countries. Boys are given preferential treatment, while girls are expected to do household chores -- cook, clean, fetch water,

Fetch