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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

“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

“I’m a thinker, not a doer, young man,” he said without bothering to look at Farooqi.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

"If an act is illegal, then the victim can always demand for compensation. The wrong committed will remain a wrong and the cost of that has to be paid by the wrong doers," he says.

From BBC Nov. 15, 2024

Is California a sun-kissed incubator of innovation and opportunity that continues to beckon doers and dreamers from the world over, as it has for well over 150 years?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2024

Still it was acknowledged that such things must be done--here and there--and even that the doers must not be repudiated.

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman




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