weaver
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And both stars see the humor in this supposed specimen of a perfect man being born from Peter Dinklage’s queer basket weaver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
The film has an A-list cast, with other stars including Peter Dinklage as the basket weaver, Elizabeth Debicki as the tailor's wife, and Richard E Grant as the village doctor.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
His missing forearm prevented him from immediately returning to his previous occupation as a weaver.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Ms. Kanakia, a novelist and the author of the newsletter “Woman of Letters,” is a compelling writer and a careful weaver of arguments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Wait until a real tale-teller, a word-spinner, a true weaver, comes along. They’ll forget all about that spider and his little brood.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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The loom put weavers out of work, he added, but it raised living standards for everyone who came after.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Through November, the museum features an open-air spider pavilion, a ticketed exhibit that allows visitors to walk amid hundreds of spiders known as orb weavers and their intricate webs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
"Many of these students are first-generation graduates. Their parents are farmers, weavers, tailors, policemen - families who take loans to fund their education," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
It also includes diamond workers of western India, who produce much of the world’s polished diamonds, as well as carpet weavers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2025
Some of the brilliant Ionian thinkers were the sons of sailors and farmers and weavers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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