retriever
noun
re·triev·er
ri-ˈtrē-vər 
: one that retrieves
especially
: a dog of any of several breeds having a heavy water-resistant coat and used especially for retrieving game
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If the retriever pulls the wrong information or the generator misinterprets it, hallucinations can still occur.
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Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Burns Court Veterinary Care explains that because of their friendly manners, dogs like Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, and beagles are the breeds that get along best with cats.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Differentiable Retrieval: Instead of separating the retriever and generator, future systems might train both components together in a fully end-to-end fashion.
—Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
As a longtime volunteer with Southwest Search Dogs, Swain trained her dogs, Spencer, a black Labrador retriever, and Rita, a yellow Labrador retriever, to follow scents up to five miles in efforts to find runaway or abducted children and adults in distress.
—Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Burns Court Veterinary Care explains that because of their friendly manners, dogs like Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, and beagles are the breeds that get along best with cats.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Differentiable Retrieval: Instead of separating the retriever and generator, future systems might train both components together in a fully end-to-end fashion.
—Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
As a longtime volunteer with Southwest Search Dogs, Swain trained her dogs, Spencer, a black Labrador retriever, and Rita, a yellow Labrador retriever, to follow scents up to five miles in efforts to find runaway or abducted children and adults in distress.
—Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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retriever
noun
re·triev·er
ri-ˈtrē-vər
: one that retrieves
especially
: a dog (as a golden retriever) of any of several breeds having a heavy water-resistant coat and used especially for retrieving game
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