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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

Often Rosalía just translates herself: “This job doesn’t have more nobility than un carpintero haciendo sillas—a carpenter doing chairs. It’s just about showing up, about practicing, about trying.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The team revived original furnishings and interior and exterior walls, while constructing a new ADA-compliant Victorian carpenter gothic cottage with stylish board and batten siding, modeled after a 19th-century Sears kit house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"We live practically like fireflies here -- in the dark all the time. You never know when you'll have power; it's our sad reality," Julian Gonzalez, a 72-year-old carpenter, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

As a carpenter, Southside wasn’t allowed to work for the larger construction firms that offered steady pay on long-term projects, given that he couldn’t join a labor union.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Eventually, the cabinets were designed and built with plywood to precise specifications by a team of carpenters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"We have mechanics, we have carpenters, we have real good problem solvers," Leverkus said.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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

Von Ungern-Sternberg was working for the Freiburg Chamber of Skilled Crafts in southwest Germany, a trade body that represents skilled workers, from bricklayers and carpenters, to butchers and bakers, and the companies that employ them.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Teams of woodland carpenters, Abbey smiths and laborers, plus any creatures that felt the need to help were lowered down to the road in large wickerwork baskets.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

For 23 years, English Novelist Phyllis Bentley has been carpentering a literary chronicle of her native Yorkshire.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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