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to be fitting or proper that outfit just won't do for the opera

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to be enough even half of that amount of sugar will do

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facing certain defeat, disaster, or death at this point retailing in the city's downtown is done

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past participle of do
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Recent Examples of do
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New York City, home to the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, didn’t make the list, but plenty of other interesting cities did. Check out which seven cities were ranked the best places for a Thanksgiving trip. Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024 Fifty-five percent of those polled said Democrats would do a better job addressing the issue most important to them. Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Owner Jason Boso fixed that, infusing $2 million into the 10-year-old bar on better bathrooms, a covered section of the patio and a re-done kitchen. Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
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Recognition doesn't always have to come in the form of bonuses or awards; sometimes, verbal acknowledgment of a job well done is enough. Tanya Arturi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 In other words, what Team Xi has done to date isn’t gaining the traction economists hoped. William Pesek, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for do 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for do
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  • Together, the pair built their own ofrenda at home, then picked out costumes and painted their faces before heading to the annual event at the start of November on the city’s Northside.
    Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Management has evaluated subsequent events through the date of the filing and determined that there are no material subsequent events to disclose or require adjustments in the financial statements.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
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  • Scientists are interested in depositing diamond dust into the atmosphere in order to reflect sunlight and cool down the planet.
    Devika Rao, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
  • You must be connected to Wi-Fi in order to get started.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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  • Many Democrats campaigned on a tax-the-rich agenda and advocated paying for other tax cuts by targeting those provisions, as well as rolling back the law’s tax cuts for corporations and individuals making more than $400,000 per year.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Consumers will find price cuts on tech gadgets, clothing, home goods, toys, and personal care items.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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  • For most of October, Sean Payton harped on his offense’s need to improve on third down.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
  • It also will be used to recruit and retain faculty who teach in the arts, and a portion will provide scholarships for students pursuing degrees in art history, digital media arts, creative writing, film studies and music, with an emphasis on supporting students with financial need.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 14 Nov. 2024
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  • Keep scrolling to shop these fashion finds, but hurry, sizes are already selling out.
    Shea Simmons, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Mashing the gas, the 27-year-old E60 lurched forward and eliminated the gap in a hurry.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2024
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  • The reality, though, is that even something as apparently low-tech as cooking a potato chip can require over half a dozen different machines to mix, roll, slice, reclaim scraps, fry, sort, flavor and package the finished product.
    Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The finished product stands 8 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide when the dark green leaves are fanned out and features five blooming flowers of various sizes.
    Clint Davis, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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  • David believes this is just her exhausted mind playing tricks, attributing it to postpartum depression, stress, and fatigue.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This means that athletes can train longer before becoming exhausted.
    Maria Berentzen, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
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  • The deep-water species belongs to a group of animals known as arthropods—an incredibly diverse group of invertebrates with jointed limbs and a hard shell known as an exoskeleton, which includes arachnids, insects and crustaceans, as well as extinct animals like trilobites.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Then, the team matches the extinct animal with a close living relative and uses video and computer vision techniques to translate the modern animal’s movements into mathematical representations.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024

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