carpenter
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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
They argued that the two men to whom he sent the messages were unlikely to carry out a murder—a federal informant with a bad back and a fellow union carpenter with no criminal history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
The ship’s carpenter was just as she’d imagined him: the round mountains of his shoulders; the brown, sun-lined face and the bandanna tied around his forehead; the splintery abused hands spotted with scars and pitch.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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