noun
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a person or thing that does something or acts in a specified manner
a doer of good
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an active or energetic person
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a thriving animal, esp a horse
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“Personally, I would trust him with my life. He is a doer, not a talker. A problem solver not a problem creator. And he always wants the best for everybody.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
"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
He was also a doer, a man blessed — as David Hackett Fischer recounts in his brilliant book Paul Revere’s Ride — with an “uncanny genius for being at the center of events.”
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
This is still where dreamers dream and doers do, and we are stubborn about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
"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
It filled a place that even the church could not supply, also in exposing evil doers to scorn.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
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