doer

Example Sentences

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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

“That was instilled in me, because I don’t like to work for anybody else. I’m more of a doer than a listener.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

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

From Slate • Jun. 28, 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

And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker