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retriever

[ri-tree-ver] / rɪˈtri vər /


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But in real life, he's seen more as a loveable golden retriever than a Rottweiler, despite his success.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The opposite of a guard dog: Golden retriever begs to play with intruder in San Diego break-in.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Usually Nash, their friendly golden retriever, jumps and barks at new visitors, Rowley said, but once they get inside, “he just thinks it’s time to play.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

While I’d sooner take life advice from my golden retriever than a chatbot, my parents aligned with their contemporaries in treating Claude as a Google substitute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I believe that mutt has got some retriever in him,” said somebody behind me.

From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo

A mass gathering of golden retrievers and their owners is to return to the ancestral home of the breed in July 2028.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

When the team compared these results with human genetic studies, they found that twelve of the genes linked to behavior in golden retrievers are also tied to emotional traits and behavior in people.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026

But since 2022 Frenchies have been top dog, with Labs and golden retrievers settling for silver and bronze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Not done waxing poetic about the eyes on the veritable Redford of retrievers, Leonberg also pointed out another benefit of his dog’s particular coloration.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2025

Month after month, Chacko’s carefully constructed planes crashed in the slushgreen paddy fields into which Estha and Rahel would spurt, like trained retrievers, to salvage the remains.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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