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
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
They seek to comfort her, sick at heart as she is, by diverting the blame from her who was forced to the doer of the wrong.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 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
"The visiting professorship is an electrifying opportunity for me to be in direct, robust creative dialogue with the next generation of thinkers and creative doers," the Australian star said.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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
“The small minded of the world don’t like thinkers and doers, especially when they succeed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
This is still where dreamers dream and doers do, and we are stubborn about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
This is the age of funerals that crown with supreme popular honor the doers of high deeds for country and race.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
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