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carpenter

[kahr-puhn-ter] / ˈkɑr pən tər /


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Master carpenter Joseph W., who did not want to give his last name, declined to speak about endorsements, focusing instead on the challenges of workers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 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

Following an uncomplicated pregnancy, primary school teacher Lauryn and her husband Andrew, a carpenter, say they "didn't have too much of a plan" beyond an expected vaginal delivery at Luton and Dunstable Hospital.

From BBC May 11, 2026

Because she only knew of one carpenter who would put Cari’s coffin before the dozens of others.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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

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

Frank Dario Manfuga, a musician from Cuba, says it was an ad on Facebook recruiting for carpenters in Russia that led him to board a plane in January bound for Moscow.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

Colored people of all backgrounds lived in Newsome Park: doctors, lawyers, dentists, ministers, teachers, carpenters, brickmasons, plumbers.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

A short, stocky man, widowed several years ago, Walters retired from carpentering but never thought of quitting music.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a sideline to his carpentering and cranberry farming, Finnish Fanner Andrew Paananen took to sanding cranberry bogs in Carver, Mass. For this crop-improving work he got two $15 checks from the Department of Agriculture.

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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