Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

doer

[doo-er] / ˈdu ər /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

In one, Grimes offered to help Musk get $5 billion in funding from then-cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, whom he described as an “Ultra genius and doer builder like your formula.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

It’s like, hey buddy, turns out you are the doer.

From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2023

They seek to comfort her, sick at heart as she is, by diverting the blame from her who was forced to the doer of the wrong.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

"You were a dreamer and a doer, and a pioneer in our sport - truly one of a kind," former world number two Tommy Haas said in a tribute.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2022

He was also a doer, a man blessed — as David Hackett Fischer recounts in his brilliant book Paul Revere’s Ride — with an “uncanny genius for being at the center of events.”

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026

The result: a revitalized nation of doers, risk-takers, and, in entrepreneur Marc Andreessen’s simple framing, builders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the current system was too complex and the NHS needed "more doers and fewer checkers".

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025

Is California a sun-kissed incubator of innovation and opportunity that continues to beckon doers and dreamers from the world over, as it has for well over 150 years?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2024

With 18 soldiers and some civilians he arrived on the 22nd "at the point where the evil doers made their attack."

From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook




Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training