doer
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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
They seek to comfort her, sick at heart as she is, by diverting the blame from her who was forced to the doer of the wrong.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 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
The passive allows a writer to postpone the mention of a doer that is heavy, old news, or both.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the current system was too complex and the NHS needed "more doers and fewer checkers".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025
This is still where dreamers dream and doers do, and we are stubborn about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
It might not have hurt them even to foresee this; but nevertheless the doers of such a thing had better not have done it.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
