pottered; pottering; potters
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Verb
pottering around indoors on a rainy day
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Jori Finkel, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
After graduating from Brown University with a degree in art history and semiotics — the study of signs — Adler became a potter full time, selling his wares at crafts fairs.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
Michael Nied, People.com, 7 July 2025
One rainy afternoon, the kindly octogenarian — wrapped in a warm leopard print jumper — stops pottering around and sinks into her favorite chair to call her daughter.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2025
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Noun
In a very rare and likely precedent-setting agreement, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the Black potter David Drake, who made his ambitious jars while enslaved, to his present-day descendants.
—Jori Finkel, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
After graduating from Brown University with a degree in art history and semiotics — the study of signs — Adler became a potter full time, selling his wares at crafts fairs.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
One week Zoë could be working at her job, pottering in the garden, playing with Penelope…but the next week could be spent in bed, in pain, recovering from a surgery or dealing with treatment side effects.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 7 July 2025
One rainy afternoon, the kindly octogenarian — wrapped in a warm leopard print jumper — stops pottering around and sinks into her favorite chair to call her daughter.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Potter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potter. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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potter
1 of 2 noun
pot·ter
ˈpät-ər 
: one that makes pottery
Biographical Definition
Potter 1 of 2
biographical name (1)
Pot·ter
ˈpä-tər
Beatrix 1866–1943 British writer and illustrator
Potter
2 of 2biographical name (2)
Paul or Paulus 1625–1654 Dutch painter
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