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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

Cian Halliday, 26, a carpenter from Llanrug, had been made redundant during the Covid-19 pandemic, something he said had been "difficult, and a struggle".

From BBC Sep. 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

"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

When she and Wil changed houses in Breda, Ma put all his stuff—including his paintings—in storage with a carpenter in Breda.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

You don't need to be a scientist, as vacancies are available for everything from carpenters, to electricians, chefs, and even a hairdresser.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2026

In 1831-33, New York ship carpenters won the first major American victory in reducing work hours.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 30, 2025

The carpenters, repairing the old house, complained that they could not keep the lumps of chalk with which they coated their chalk lines.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

Henry D. Moyle. an oil company millionaire who is counselor to Church President David McKay, has been over to the chapel project twice, promises to do some carpentering later.

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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