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carpenter

[kahr-puhn-ter] / ˈkɑr pən tər /


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Johan Bodin, a Swedish-born carpenter who had lived on the Odyssey with his American girlfriend, Lanette Canen, posted regular YouTube updates about their two years on board.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Christophe, a 47-year-old carpenter and former Yellow Vest protester who did not give his surname, said he was indignant after seeing what he viewed as police brutality against teenagers in recent weeks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

"Then they offered me an apprenticeship and I chose to be a carpenter."

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

“It’s like if you’re a carpenter and someone’s like, ‘Can you make this table?’

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The ship’s carpenter was just as she’d imagined him: the round mountains of his shoulders; the brown, sun-lined face and the bandanna tied around his forehead; the splintery abused hands spotted with scars and pitch.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Alex Stack, a Bass spokesperson, said the requests being made by the carpenters would have driven up the cost of affordable housing production, while also slowing down approval at City Hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

The carpenters council has put $3 million of its own money into Estamos Con Nithya so far.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Walt Whitman wrote that he heard America singing in the carols of mechanics, carpenters, and shoemakers building our country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

They weren’t carpenters or masons, and I had to teach them everything from books I bought.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

Suddenly the Fair Folk halted at one of the cottages, and from a neatly carpentered pen Taran heard a loud “Hwoinch!”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

His carpentering and plastering employes mostly came to work in their automobiles.

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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