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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

Every now and then you might come across a doer of bad deeds serving time in the stocks, but that was generally as exciting as it got.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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 result: a revitalized nation of doers, risk-takers, and, in entrepreneur Marc Andreessen’s simple framing, builders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

The Telegraph reported lyrics from the canticle written by a chorister included "Lord, how long shall the ungodly triumph?" and "how long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully?"

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

This is still where dreamers dream and doers do, and we are stubborn about it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025

They were hearers of the words, but not doers.

From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein




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