carpentering

verb

present participle of carpenter
as in manufacturing

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  1. manufacturing
  2. building
  3. constructing
  4. molding
  5. producing
  6. shaping
  7. erecting
  8. forging
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  • In Wyoming, Hammack recounted her recent visit with a group of manufacturing plant workers in Erie, Pennsylvania.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026
  • An elementary school teacher in the Philadelphia suburbs has been arrested and charged with manufacturing child pornography, federal officials said.
    — Laura Fay, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of manufacturing
Verb
  • Investors have fretted that Nvidia's growth has been driven by a handful of large technology companies called hyperscalers, which are building out data centers that end up largely serving a few frontier labs such as OpenAI.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The real work is building relationships with sponsors, serving your community, speaking to thousands of people, representing a brand professionally, and showing up consistently.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of building
Verb
  • Asante draws a manufacturing analogy—with some exaggeration—arguing that previous nuclear power plants were built bespoke, akin to constructing an entire factory to produce a single car.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Mendoza, of the Philippine Tennis Association, told me that new public courts are being built around the country, and the government is constructing a new national tennis center.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of constructing
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  • In his aesthetic response to the movement’s stance, Mansour made mud his medium, layering and molding it for pottery.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Parents pick what children wear, molding them for the adult world.
    — Peter Saenger, Air Mail, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of molding
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  • The videos, which are projected to fill a single wall, were shot with two iPhone 15s mounted together in a handheld jig, producing two images, one for each eye.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The area around my hometown was once a famous silk-producing region, and my grandparents kept silkworms in six-foot-wide bamboo trays.
    — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of producing
Verb
  • By reducing some of the technical barriers involved in planning and producing video content, these tools can give creators more room to focus on creative decisions, from shaping original concepts to building distinctive characters and visual worlds.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • How kids are shaping back-to-school supplies choices More than half of back-to-school purchases involve significant or complete input from children, regardless of how much a family plans to spend, according to Zeta Global’s 2026 retail research.
    — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of shaping
Verb
  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded by erecting a 24-by-12-foot bilingual sign in Grimsby, Ontario on Saturday with the Canadian name for the lake.
    — Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The Coastal Commission signed off on the project a few years ago, after tussles over low-cost housing provisions during the course of erecting yet another luxury hotel.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of erecting
Verb
  • Now, 15 years later, Cook has catapulted the company to stratospheric heights by forging his own path.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Most school districts are forging ahead with technology in classrooms.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of forging
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“Carpentering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carpentering. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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