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carpenter

[kahr-puhn-ter] / ˈkɑr pən tər /


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The team revived original furnishings and interior and exterior walls, while constructing a new ADA-compliant Victorian carpenter gothic cottage with stylish board and batten siding, modeled after a 19th-century Sears kit house.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

"We've been here since day one, digging holes all the way down to the ground floor," the 50-year-old carpenter told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

His father, Noel Ernest Hord, was a carpenter as well as a pastor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Family members have said Craig, a carpenter, has been refusing food for 25 days.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

To Dion Geraldine, he wrote, “You will please dismiss every carpenter on your force....”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

She believes that because they're only automating the structure of the building, the business model isn't threatening to carpenters.

From BBC May 11, 2026

The construction and installation of offshore wind turbines requires the expertise of skilled electrical workers, pipe fitters, welders, pile drivers, iron workers, machinists and carpenters.

From Salon May 9, 2026

You don't need to be a scientist, as vacancies are available for everything from carpenters, to electricians, chefs, and even a hairdresser.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2026

Frank Dario Manfuga, a musician from Cuba, says it was an ad on Facebook recruiting for carpenters in Russia that led him to board a plane in January bound for Moscow.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

He was still red in the face when he got up to speak, and you could tell he was looking out at the audience for the carpenters and plasterers.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

Mines, of course, are highly constructed, carpentered environments—exactly the kind of environment that should produce a large illusion, according to the theory.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2025

Two farmers down the street asked to get married there last fall; guests ate at tables Sarver carpentered and danced late into the night beneath the barn’s vaulted ceiling and wooden beams.

From Washington Times Jun. 25, 2016

It’s open at the bottom, and I saw several people direct puzzled glances at its roughly carpentered interior.

From The New Yorker Jun. 15, 2015

The latter are big quasi-octagonal panels that might have been carpentered for some hieratic medieval interior.

From The Guardian Jul. 6, 2011

Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

He was a dab hand at carpentering, doctoring, shipbuilding and grape growing.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2022

His upper body is hefty, his hands coarse from years of carpentering.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2020

Kennedy said he had kept his hand in at carpentering, but feared no one would hire him; he had a brother and a widowed mother to support.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 23 years, English Novelist Phyllis Bentley has been carpentering a literary chronicle of her native Yorkshire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell




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