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doer

[doo-er] / ˈdu ər /


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In one, Grimes offered to help Musk get $5 billion in funding from then-cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, whom he described as an “Ultra genius and doer builder like your formula.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2026

It’s like, hey buddy, turns out you are the doer.

From Slate Jun. 28, 2023

Smart said the Ridley-Thomas he knows is “honorable, respectful, and a doer for the people — all people.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2023

"You were a dreamer and a doer, and a pioneer in our sport - truly one of a kind," former world number two Tommy Haas said in a tribute.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2022

He was also a doer, a man blessed — as David Hackett Fischer recounts in his brilliant book Paul Revere’s Ride — with an “uncanny genius for being at the center of events.”

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

"The visiting professorship is an electrifying opportunity for me to be in direct, robust creative dialogue with the next generation of thinkers and creative doers," the Australian star said.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon Mar. 28, 2026

“The small minded of the world don’t like thinkers and doers, especially when they succeed.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

Is California a sun-kissed incubator of innovation and opportunity that continues to beckon doers and dreamers from the world over, as it has for well over 150 years?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2024

But candor must admit, that if it was generally a terror to evil doers in the name of religion, it was not always a praise to them that did well.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton




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