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doer

[doo-er] / ˈdu ər /


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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

He said he and his wife Victoria chose it as a "doer upper".

From BBC Oct. 8, 2024

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

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

This is still where dreamers dream and doers do, and we are stubborn about it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2025

The shop worker tells the Trading Standards officer he doers not know his boss's name.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2025

But in the first two examples they are associated with muscular movements which, we must believe, are carried out unknown to the doers and hence have their source in a dissociated stream.

From Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge by Millais Culpin




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