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carpenter

[kahr-puhn-ter] / ˈkɑr pən tər /


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"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

“But instead, I took the original ones to my carpenter and we had to pull the porch apart to reinstall them, and then we painted them eight different colors.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The court heard the self-employed carpenter and joiner, who had served in the military before an injury cut his career short, had struggled with his mental health.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

To pay for his tuition and expenses, James worked as a carpenter and as the school's janitor.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Eventually, the cabinets were designed and built with plywood to precise specifications by a team of carpenters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

The result: a 30% drop in employment from a late-2022 peak for actors, carpenters, costumers and the hundreds of other professions that make movies and TV shows, according to Labor Department data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Mr. Bigelow summoned his carpenters and went away.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

Henry D. Moyle. an oil company millionaire who is counselor to Church President David McKay, has been over to the chapel project twice, promises to do some carpentering later.

From Time Magazine Archive

A short, stocky man, widowed several years ago, Walters retired from carpentering but never thought of quitting music.

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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