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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Origin of doer
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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
And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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 result: a revitalized nation of doers, risk-takers, and, in entrepreneur Marc Andreessen’s simple framing, builders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
The shop worker tells the Trading Standards officer he doers not know his boss's name.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 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
In this process of passing from deeds to the hearts and heads of the doers the image-forming power plays a leading part.
From American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur Fisk Gordy
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