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# [Building a RAG Engine — Part 1: Retrieval Foundation](https://ebmurha.hashnode.dev/building-a-rag-engine-part-1-retrieval-foundation?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Building the search layer of a RAG engine with provenance, hybrid retrieval, grounded citations, multilingual handling, and evaluation.

Apr 7 · 14 min read · ebmurha.hashnode.dev  
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