builder
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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
Brannock, the Jacksonville builder, said local framers’ wages used to work out to around $20 an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Most towns and local governments have rules on how big a lot must be for a builder to construct a single-family home on it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
In his 2010 autobiography, My Life on Mars, he recalled a builder stopping him in The Open University car park to shake his hand.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
To be a man, a doer, a builder, a leader, or to be a tool, an unfunny joke, a crusher of funky toadstools.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
By creating more demand for new homes, he said, the hope is that builders will respond en masse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Dozens of builders had been working on the upper floors when it collapsed, but managed to emerge largely unscathed.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
A September John Burns Research & Consulting Survey says two-thirds of builders reported labor force disruptions, up from 13% a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
More home builders are cutting prices on new houses even as their construction costs increase, as buyers flee the housing market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Behind them rose the Wall: immense, forbidding, frigid, acrawl with builders pushing up a new switchback stair to join the remnants of the old.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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