Thesaurus results for BUILDER

builder

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Definition of builder

as in craftsman

a person or company that builds or repairs things (such as houses or ships) They hired a team of builders to carry out the renovation.

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as in designer

a person or organization that creates something (such as a business) He was one of the great empire builders of the 20th century.

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Recent Examples of builder But its stock nevertheless swung between losses and gains after the home builder’s executive chairman said conditions got even tougher for the industry over the last three months. — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 Over nine months after filing for Chapter 11, Fort Worth home builder Village homes emerged from bankruptcy after a federal court approved its reorganization plan. — Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2026 Real tradespeople, farmers and builders wearing the gear in their actual lives. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026 Germany is not one of those countries, but expedition builders like Bimobil and Desert Tec procure them through the import market and build thoroughly outfitted world tourers in and atop them. — New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for builder

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That's thanks to the impeccable credentials of its chef, Sky Zheng—who was mentored by Master Chef Daisuke Nakazawa, the protégé of Jiro Ono, one of the greatest living sushi craftsmen alive today.

— Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026
Jingdezhen’s craftsmen have kept alive techniques once used to produce porcelain for the imperial court.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of craftsman

Noun

While designers have no current use for their jump-otronic robots, the sheer amount of robotics development for terrestrial and extra-planetary exploration suggests that the photoleapers are a solution that will eventually find their problem.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026
Niki Cheng is a designer and co-founder of 18th Street Design Collective.

— Jane Kim, The Spruce, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of designer

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Co-founded by George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, the soaring biomorphic structure designed by architect Ma Yansong’s firm MAD displays Lucas’s vast and motley personal collection of figurative art.

— Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2026
Selection panels should include makers, architects, fabricators, conservators, historians, and citizens — not only curators.

— Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of architect

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ConnCAT and ConnCORP founder Carlton Highsmith, who serves as the board chair of both organizations, had already announced his own plans to step down at the end of the year.

— P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
Sidney Baptista, founder of Pynrs streetwear — which has collaborated with Brooks Running — brought up ownership in fashion as well in conversation with Brooks athlete and pro marathoner Erika Kemp.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of founder

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The sun's intense flare-ups had put the telescope on a downward spiral faster than engineers anticipated.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
Researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln have found evidence that could change how engineers view hafnium oxide in electronic devices.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of engineer

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Following his opera career, Schachtel’s father became a cantor and married a granddaughter of Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, a rabbi of Grodno, after whom the seminary of Yeshiva University is named.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Wickersham said last year that the silver Pontiac G5 car that the suspect used to ram the police SUV belonged to the man's father.

— Christina Hall, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of father

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But while the creators of AI strive to set guardrails, the building of the infrastructure for the technology continues.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
The 2026 schedule of festival activities includes gala screenings, anniversary screenings, and athlete and creator conversations.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of creator

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Crocs has teamed with Polartec and sole maker Vibram on the Tembo II RO, a cold-weather shoe that combines a removable Polartec Micro Series fleece bootie with a Vibram rubber outsole.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
Threats of this kind are a risk documentary makers face in the course of their work.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026