plural molders
: one that molds something or someone
a molder of minds
an iron molder
… the house and home as both a reflection and a molder of the people who live there.—
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: one that exerts a determining influence on an attitude or course of development
… seems to have slipped almost effortlessly into his newly acquired role as a molder of world events. —Molly Moore
Molly Moore … key opinion molders in Congress and the U.S. media … —Michel Oksenberg
Michel Oksenberg Examples of molder in a Sentence
Verb
leaves moldering in the compost pile
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The rescue project could easily have remained a warehouse of old books, dusty treasures moldering in the dark, occasionally accessed by scholars and hobbyists.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 2 May 2025
But the alternative — allowing art to molder, unseen, in private collections or languish in storage, is worse.
—Max Lakin, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Verb
But then a fresh corpse turns up, as well as a long-moldering skeleton, and the club members are off and running.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The rescue project could easily have remained a warehouse of old books, dusty treasures moldering in the dark, occasionally accessed by scholars and hobbyists.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
Noun
Instead, the House provisions slapped together to please narrow constituencies in the lower chamber will start to molder under Senate scrutiny.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 2 May 2025
But the alternative — allowing art to molder, unseen, in private collections or languish in storage, is worse.
—Max Lakin, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Molder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/molder. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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