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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

He said he and his wife Victoria chose it as a "doer upper".

From BBC Oct. 8, 2024

Eventually, they were joined by a world-class thinker and doer, Steve Simon.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2024

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

From Slate Jun. 28, 2023

To be a man, a doer, a builder, a leader, or to be a tool, an unfunny joke, a crusher of funky toadstools.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

"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

To stave off Huxley’s dystopia, we must deliberately shape our children’s souls so that they can be creators, doers and thinkers embracing the next frontier.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2025

In other words, the actual doers of the marvelous works, the spirits, are seen only by the accusers and the accused—the clairvoyants here.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam




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