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

And Cooper is not a politician who seeks attention, content to be seen as a "quiet doer", as a source describes her.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2025

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

Now we see the other major benefit of the passive: it allows the doer to be mentioned later in the sentence than the done-to.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker