carpenter
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“We don’t have a lot of savings, all our money is in our home,” said Gabe Cotton, a union carpenter in the Festus area.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
His father was a carpenter helping build minesweepers at Terminal Island for the Navy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Sprague co-hosted “Run My Renovation” for the DIY Network and was a carpenter on “Trading Spaces.”
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026
He credits training as a carpenter with "shaping him", and has previously spent his summers working on construction sites.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
Clearly, in the case of making a table, the carpenter does have a plan: the form is an idea in his mind, and the table he makes corresponds to that form.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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