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 ## Use your own search engine
 
-The main philosophy is to launch a local or remote search engine server seperately from the main RL training pipeline. 
+The main philosophy is to launch a local or remote search engine server separately from the main RL training pipeline. 
 
 The LLM can call the search engine by calling the search API (e.g., "http://127.0.0.1:8000/retrieve").