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
Eventually, they were joined by a world-class thinker and doer, Steve Simon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
It’s like, hey buddy, turns out you are the doer.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2023
To be a man, a doer, a builder, a leader, or to be a tool, an unfunny joke, a crusher of funky toadstools.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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
"The downside is it's driven out a lot of people who looked after the village, the doers who got involved in the community."
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024
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
With 18 soldiers and some civilians he arrived on the 22nd "at the point where the evil doers made their attack."
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook
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