carpenter
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His father, Noel Ernest Hord, was a carpenter as well as a pastor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The court heard the self-employed carpenter and joiner, who had served in the military before an injury cut his career short, had struggled with his mental health.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
His father was a carpenter helping build minesweepers at Terminal Island for the Navy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Sprague co-hosted “Run My Renovation” for the DIY Network and was a carpenter on “Trading Spaces.”
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
The carpenter took apart the wheelhouse from the ship and rebuilt it at Ocean Camp for a galley, and the larger “hot potato can,” as the stove was called, was installed inside.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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
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
That’s led to a 30% drop in employment from a late-2022 peak for actors, carpenters, costumers and the hundreds of other showbiz professions, according to Labor Department data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
The production also hired more than 100 New Zealand workers for every U.S. crew member they brought in, employing local electricians, construction workers, caterers and carpenters, Landau wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
The carpenters first assembled each individual truss on the ground.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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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
Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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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
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One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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