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builder

[bil-der] / ˈbɪl dər /


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Walsh started his career as a professional builder before rising to fame alongside Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock on the BBC's Ground Force from 1997 to 2005.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Despite investor optimism, home builders still face rising labor and materials costs, plummeting sales and a 14-year low in builder sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The Arlington, Texas, home builder logged earnings of $741.8 million, or $2.67 a share, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended in September, down from $905.3 million, or $3.04 a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Raised in Queens, the son of a builder and a dressmaker, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife of 41 years, Katherine, and still takes the subway to watch his beloved Knicks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Of course! A builder can make and unmake a house. Both are his job.”

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

There is a whiff of postelection optimism about the housing market that is boosting the battered shares of home builders in an otherwise volatile stock market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Despite investor optimism, home builders still face rising labor and materials costs, plummeting sales and a 14-year low in builder sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“There is a little bit of a feeling in the marketplace amongst builders that maybe this would help change buyer sentiment,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The movement, he writes, was full of “bomb throwers but no builders, screeds but no manuals, critique but no solution.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The rest of the neighborhood—bakers, fletchers, candle-makers, booksellers, builders, painters, other historians—would have to pretend they had never been friends with him in the first place.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin


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