doer

Example Sentences

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“I’ve been a doer all my life. I don’t like to sit around sucking my thumb. I like to resolve problems.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

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

"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

Now we see the other major benefit of the passive: it allows the doer to be mentioned later in the sentence than the done-to.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker