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carpenter

[kahr-puhn-ter] / ˈkɑr pən tər /


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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

"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

An Irish carpenter acquired the isle in Florida’s Lake Marion in the 1880s and built the main house by hand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

"It's a very money-driven society for young adults. When they see a carpenter doing what they like and making a lot of money fast, they see that as aspirational."

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

The big man Archer had helped on the stairs pushed through the ring of sailors—Horse, the ship’s carpenter.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

AI has also made its way into the software used by woodworkers and 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

He said the program isn’t about Hollywood’s stars; it’s about the jobs that productions create, including roles for set designers, carpenters and lighting crews.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2026

Bricklayers set the foundation and laid the exterior walls, while carpenters erected the interior frame.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

For Christmas, he’d given her a table he had carpentered himself, and Karen was going to insist on returning it.

From Washington Post Sep. 30, 2019

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

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

As the pictures show, hunting, fishing, farming, brickmaking, butchering, carpentering, dancing, drinking, feasting and mourning were essentially the same then as now.

From Time Magazine Archive

In their spare time they studied engineering and carpentering.

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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