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• She’s earned the right to do nothing for the rest of her life.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
• Set these two up for a drag race, and the Mustang's big power and extra torque do nothing for it.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 27 June 2022
• The vaccine will do nothing for the grieving relatives of those who died.
  — NBC News, 8 Dec. 2020
• Worse: those hours do nothing for the employee nor the company.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 20 July 2022
• If mice don’t have this protein, mambalgins do nothing for them.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
• The jockeying for power will do nothing for ordinary Haitians, the leaders said.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• Strike up a friendship with someone who truly can do nothing for you besides caring about you and giving you good company.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2021
• Failure to apply this knowledge when looking at labels can result in buying products that do nothing for your skin type or needs.
  — Dallas News, 31 Oct. 2022
• Those systems do nothing for your braking distance, and which can only really be reduced by using a set of winter tires.
  — Outside Online, 21 Dec. 2022
• Which is why America's best response to Russia's nuclear alert is probably to do nothing for now.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 Feb. 2022
• Plus, alternatives do nothing for the systemic risk of the indexes or traditional money managers used in the core of the portfolio.
  — David Thomas, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Our hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan will do nothing for stability in the region or our own security.
  — Brad Taylor, National Review, 25 Aug. 2021
• Unfortunately, the exceptions do nothing for all the new aspirants drawn in this year’s lottery—seven in 10 of whom are Indians.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 13 Aug. 2020
• That means ones that tamp down the immune system might help patients with an over-active immune system but hurt those whose immune systems aren’t working hard enough, and do nothing for those with a balanced immune response.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
• Probably not, experts say Surgical masks and bandanas do nothing for smoke protection, experts say.
  — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Jawando noted that capping increases at 8 percent plus inflation would do nothing for renters like Amouzou who are struggling even with yearly increases that some consider to be small.
  — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Any such effect would be limited because cutting payroll taxes would do nothing for the more than 40 million Americans who have filed for unemployment benefits since mid-March.
  — Max Richtman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 3 June 2020
• These initiatives do nothing for a diabetic patient struggling to afford insulin or a new parent drowning under five-figure medical bills.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
• Not only are college and graduate students disproportionately well off, but the money has already been borrowed, so canceling loans would do nothing for incentives.
  — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024