builders

noun

plural of builder
1
as in craftsmen
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 designers
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 builders From 2008 to 2015, builders received fewer than 1,000 permits a year in the state. — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026 For Sutley, collaboration with builders is promising in itself. — Daniel Wolfe, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026 Elice Group shares plunged 30% on their debut, and new analysis showed investors were upping their purchases of credit default swaps linked to bonds issued by chipmakers and data center builders. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026 His investment portfolio offers a window into athletes’ growing influence as owners and business builders. — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The organization sued on behalf of home builders and got the new rules blocked in court. — Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026 They’re joined by California chapters of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and unions representing ironworkers, insulators and builders of elevators and escalators. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026 In fact, model builders can strategically assemble data mixes that best promote benchmark performance. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 There’s also the challenge of convincing builders running on paper thin margins that their old ways of doing things might fit better in a new mould. — Sara Herschander, Vox, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for builders
  1. craftsmen
  2. designers
  3. architects
  4. founders
  5. engineers
  6. creators
  7. fathers
  8. makers
Noun
  • It’s crafted by these incredible artists and craftsmen who build the world with their own hands.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2026
  • La Galerie Du 19M Shanghai Chanel’s Le19M creative hub has traveled to Shanghai for the first time with an ambitious exhibition that brings the brand’s unique production system to life via the work of Chinese artists, makers, and craftsmen.
    — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of craftsmen
Noun
  • All four of Anthropic's primary chip designers have large stakes or options to buy stakes in Anthropic, highlighting the strategic ties between chipmakers or hyperscalers and the AI labs.
    — Ashley Capoot,Jordan Novet,Annie Palmer,Lora Kolodny,Kai Nicol-Schwarz,Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Few designers are as identified with this look as Piero Portaluppi (1888–1967), the Rationalist architect behind the iconic Villa Necchi Campiglio and Casa Corbellini-Wassermann.
    — Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of designers
Noun
  • Advertisement The architects of New Stanford might’ve avoided all of the above and still meaningfully included women by running parallel exercises in separate pods.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Kiefer worked directly with the architects to establish the proportions of the exhibition room, including where the openings are in the space and the color of the walls.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of architects
Noun
  • The following week, Zuckerberg’s lawyers sent a letter asking for a pay package similar to those made to other tech founders, partly so Zuckerberg could pay a potential tax bill.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Alphabet made a similar move in 2014, executing a 2-for-1 stock split that introduced non-voting shares alongside super-voting shares, which allowed the combined control of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to remain at just over 50%.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of founders
Noun
  • Our job, before and after AI, is building safe and useful products for human beings, and engineers are still best suited for that.
    — Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of manufacturing and physically testing hundreds of battery designs, engineers used computer models to evaluate more than 300,000 possible configurations before producing a prototype.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of engineers
Noun
  • Some creators recommend the bag, positioning it as the ultimate back-to-school design.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Here, members of Forbes Agency Council share ways to turn creators into genuine strategic partners in holiday campaigns.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of creators
Noun
  • Those girls in the hothouses maintained by fathers and uncles certainly would not spare a single thought for Percherette.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Nearly every player on the team is a dad, with seemingly a few players becoming first-time fathers each of the past few seasons.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of fathers
Noun
  • The original seven-acre property and winery that is today known as Lagar de Fornelos was built by brothers who were local boat makers and started the winery as a weekend pastime for their families.
    — Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Food makers, grocery chains and other retailers are adapting to those changes in consumer habits.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
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