carpentering

present participle of carpenter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for carpentering
Verb
  • On the one hand, an edge could be gained by pumping out ever smaller, nimbler gametes; on the other, there was an advantage to be had in manufacturing fewer, larger gametes for the small fry to vie for.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Politicians have spent decades promising and trying to bring manufacturing back.
    Saxby Chambliss, Fortune, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • Those approvals allow crews to begin building essential site infrastructure before full production activities start.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
  • Her parents are both undocumented immigrants who spent decades in San Diego, working as paleteros, selling ice cream, building a life and raising a family.
    Luzdelia Caballero, CBS News, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Gord Lambert ran this dynamic explicitly while constructing Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA).
    James G. Naples, Fortune, 27 June 2026
  • Amazon’s approach in the fiercely competitive AI arena encompasses more than just simple purchases; the firm is constructing the vital infrastructure.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • New Spots White, gray, red, blue, or green spots indicate that your food is molding.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
  • These patterns suggested that the school experience itself—particularly the amount of sustained mental effort the school day requires—could be molding students’ cognitive endurance.
    Supreet Kaur, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Orbital Composites develops robotic additive manufacturing systems for producing advanced composite and high-temperature components for defense, aerospace, and energy applications.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026
  • Longer gaps between disclosures could allow larger pools of uncertainty to accumulate beneath the surface, producing fewer but more severe repricing events when conditions finally become visible to markets.
    Nosa Omoigui, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • This evergreen shrub is perfect for shearing and shaping into formal hedges.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
  • Youngwood’s job is to make the financial case for that bet, determining how aggressively the company invests and shaping the investor narrative around the results.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Competition for American souls English advocates of colonization were aware that Catholics had been erecting churches in modern-day Mexico and Peru.
    Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Local government should be lowering barriers for entrepreneurs, not erecting more.
    Wendy R. Anderson, Washington Post, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • The Drug Enforcement Administration responded to a home on the 400 block of West Chew Avenue on Thursday afternoon for an investigation of a person who was allegedly forging government documents, according to law enforcement sources.
    Siafa Lewis, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • She is accused of fraudulently representing that the practice was owned by a licensed dentist in order to enroll with Medicaid and forging a licensed dentist’s signature on enrollment paperwork, prosecutors said.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2026
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“Carpentering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carpentering. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.

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