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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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
As a longtime subscriber and crossword puzzle doer of the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Long ago, Jerrie determined she wasn't a talker; she was a doer.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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 small minded of the world don’t like thinkers and doers, especially when they succeed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
"Doctor Mac, Doctor Mac, Ye should stretch on a rack, To strike evil doers wi' terror; To join faith and sense Upon any pretence, Was heretic damnable error, Doctor Mac, Was heretic damnable error."
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
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