Retriever
noun
A breed of dog that loves to fetch and return items, often used for hunting birds.
Golden retrievers are popular pets due to their friendly and obedient nature.
Often appears as...
- golden retriever
- labrador retriever
noun
Someone or something that brings back or gets back something.
He acted as a retriever, bringing back the frisbee each time I threw it.
Often appears as...
- ball retriever
- data retriever
noun
A breed of dog that loves to fetch and return items, often used for hunting birds.
Golden retrievers are popular pets due to their friendly and obedient nature.
Often appears as...
- golden retriever
- labrador retriever
noun
Someone or something that brings back or gets back something.
He acted as a retriever, bringing back the frisbee each time I threw it.
Often appears as...
- ball retriever
- data retriever
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Pro Tip 1/3Dog Breeds
There are specific breeds called retrievers, each with unique characteristics, often good family pets.
A Labrador retriever is known for its loyalty and friendly temperament.
Pro Tip 2/3Fetching Instinct
Retrievers have a natural instinct to fetch objects, often enjoying games of catch.
My golden retriever will instantly run after a ball when I throw it.
Pro Tip 3/3Hunting Helper
Traditionally, retrievers were bred to help hunters by fetching game without damage.
The hunter admired his retriever's gentle mouth as it brought back the duck.
Pro Tip 1/3Dog Breeds
There are specific breeds called retrievers, each with unique characteristics, often good family pets.
A Labrador retriever is known for its loyalty and friendly temperament.
Pro Tip 2/3Fetching Instinct
Retrievers have a natural instinct to fetch objects, often enjoying games of catch.
My golden retriever will instantly run after a ball when I throw it.
Pro Tip 3/3Hunting Helper
Traditionally, retrievers were bred to help hunters by fetching game without damage.
The hunter admired his retriever's gentle mouth as it brought back the duck.
Pro Tip 1/3Dog Breeds
There are specific breeds called retrievers, each with unique characteristics, often good family pets.
A Labrador retriever is known for its loyalty and friendly temperament.
Pro Tip 2/3Fetching Instinct
Retrievers have a natural instinct to fetch objects, often enjoying games of catch.
My golden retriever will instantly run after a ball when I throw it.
Pro Tip 3/3Hunting Helper
Traditionally, retrievers were bred to help hunters by fetching game without damage.
The hunter admired his retriever's gentle mouth as it brought back the duck.
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Adorable Underwater Dogs...
speedier than the golden retrievers and it's been interesting watching him because he seems to move quite fast almost like a sprinter and he seems to be doing that rotary gallop so right right left left left in a big sort of circle which is what they do when they're really going very fast on the ground so just the same in the water
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Alice Dreger: Is anatomy...
How do you judge people based on the content of character? I also want to point out that I'm not sure that is how we should distribute rights in terms of humans, because, I have to admit, that there are some golden retrievers I know that are probably more deserving of social services than some humans I know.
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Calm Down! PIPE Dog...
children and to teach adults you know hey because they don't have this bad habit so ingrained and them I just need to make sure that I'm projecting calm assertive energy so let's go back to the golden retriever because we didn't win there then at that time I said you know
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Chris Downey: Design...
I heard something else, a familiar rattle. It sounded familiar, and I quickly considered another possibility, and I reached out with my left hand, as my fingers brushed against something fuzzy, and I came across an ear, the ear of a dog, perhaps a golden retriever.
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Paul Root Wolpe: It's...
the body of a retriever, maybe some pink fur, and let's make it glow in the dark"? Does industry get to create creatures who, in their milk, in their blood, and in their saliva and other bodily fluids, create the drugs and industrial molecules we want
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Stroke of insight - Jill...
and what comes out of my voice is I think oh my gosh I sound like a golden retriever so I couldn't know I didn't know that I couldn't speak or understand language until I tried so he recognizes that I need help and he and he gets me
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Making Simply Beautiful...
are very endangered species and extraordinarily friendly they're more like golden retrievers it was a glorious glorious 40 minutes with them I was looking at light I was looking at the way the light struck the green meadow of
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It's time to question...
we want do we have free reign to design animals do we get to go someday to pets our us and say look i want a dog i'd like it to have the head of a dachshund the body of a retriever maybe some pink fur and let's make it
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Capturing the Impact of...
seriously buried an avalanche you can imagine the feeling that you must be having when you see her a retriever digging the hole open and saving your life I mean it's got to be a moment
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What happens during a...
the physician inserts a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter into an artery in the leg and maneuvers it all the way to the blockage. A retriever is passed through this catheter.
Video examples
Adorable Underwater Dogs...
speedier than the golden retrievers and it's been interesting watching him because he seems to move quite fast almost like a sprinter and he seems to be doing that rotary gallop so right right left left left in a big sort of circle which is what they do when they're really going very fast on the ground so just the same in the water
Video examples
Alice Dreger: Is anatomy...
How do you judge people based on the content of character? I also want to point out that I'm not sure that is how we should distribute rights in terms of humans, because, I have to admit, that there are some golden retrievers I know that are probably more deserving of social services than some humans I know.
Video examples
Calm Down! PIPE Dog...
children and to teach adults you know hey because they don't have this bad habit so ingrained and them I just need to make sure that I'm projecting calm assertive energy so let's go back to the golden retriever because we didn't win there then at that time I said you know
Video examples
Chris Downey: Design...
I heard something else, a familiar rattle. It sounded familiar, and I quickly considered another possibility, and I reached out with my left hand, as my fingers brushed against something fuzzy, and I came across an ear, the ear of a dog, perhaps a golden retriever.
Video examples
Paul Root Wolpe: It's...
the body of a retriever, maybe some pink fur, and let's make it glow in the dark"? Does industry get to create creatures who, in their milk, in their blood, and in their saliva and other bodily fluids, create the drugs and industrial molecules we want
Video examples
Stroke of insight - Jill...
and what comes out of my voice is I think oh my gosh I sound like a golden retriever so I couldn't know I didn't know that I couldn't speak or understand language until I tried so he recognizes that I need help and he and he gets me
Video examples
Making Simply Beautiful...
are very endangered species and extraordinarily friendly they're more like golden retrievers it was a glorious glorious 40 minutes with them I was looking at light I was looking at the way the light struck the green meadow of
Video examples
It's time to question...
we want do we have free reign to design animals do we get to go someday to pets our us and say look i want a dog i'd like it to have the head of a dachshund the body of a retriever maybe some pink fur and let's make it
Video examples
Capturing the Impact of...
seriously buried an avalanche you can imagine the feeling that you must be having when you see her a retriever digging the hole open and saving your life I mean it's got to be a moment
Video examples
What happens during a...
the physician inserts a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter into an artery in the leg and maneuvers it all the way to the blockage. A retriever is passed through this catheter.
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Elizabeth Mitchell
American Actress
I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!
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Chris Carmack
American Actor
I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever: just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is, even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.
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Linda Blair
American Actress
There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
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Ben Fogle
English Writer
I'm the son of a vet and grew up with golden retrievers. Dogs have always loomed large in our lives but labradors have the nicest personalities: kind, loyal and caring.
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Sigourney Weaver
American Actress
I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.
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Debi Gliori
Scottish Writer
I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.
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Sara Paretsky
American Author
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
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Betty White
American Actress
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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Denise Richards
American Actress
I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.
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Elizabeth Mitchell
American Actress
I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.
Quote examples
Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!
Quote examples
Chris Carmack
American Actor
I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever: just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is, even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.
Quote examples
Linda Blair
American Actress
There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
Quote examples
Ben Fogle
English Writer
I'm the son of a vet and grew up with golden retrievers. Dogs have always loomed large in our lives but labradors have the nicest personalities: kind, loyal and caring.
Quote examples
Sigourney Weaver
American Actress
I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.
Quote examples
Debi Gliori
Scottish Writer
I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.
Quote examples
Sara Paretsky
American Author
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
Quote examples
Betty White
American Actress
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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Denise Richards
American Actress
I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.
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