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
The passive allows a writer to postpone the mention of a doer that is heavy, old news, or both.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
"Across IT companies, people managers are being let go while the doers are being kept to rationalise the workforce and bring in efficiencies," Neeti Sharma, CEO of staffing firm TeamLease Digital told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
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
Austere, correct, unyielding, he was a terror to evil doers.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
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