How to Use do something about in a Sentence

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  • Stop talking about the skills gap and do something about it.
    Dave Merkel, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Now, at least one state is trying to do something about it.
    Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But very few people are in a position to do something about it.
    Isaac Arnsdorf, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Why he's waited 20 years to do something about this is beyond me and very bad timing.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • What remained to be seen was whether the government could be convinced to do something about it.
    Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The 39-year-old wasn’t afraid of aging, but the realization last year inspired her to do something about it.
    Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • And nothing is what Republicans seem to want to give to the IRS, which lacked the resources to do something about getting the rich to comply with the law.
    Edward J. McCaffery, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Knowing his team was getting out-hustled on the glass in the previous game, Paul was trying to do something about it.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Also growing is the number of people stepping up to do something about it.
    Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The University of Chicago recruit then set out to do something about it.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Kessin then went to see the graffiti for herself and became determined to do something about it.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Congress had a chance last year to do something about our domestic dark-money problem.
    James Lardner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • After that depressing news, is there hope in Northeast Ohio that someone in this state will do something about climate change?
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Some 30 million Netflix users are sharing passwords in the States and Canada, and that’s a big incentive for Netflix to do something about the practice.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The growing momentum to do something about Callery pear trees, Hollibaugh said, gives the division more confidence that removing them is the right thing to do.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That noise disturbed the neighborhoods—and one engineer, Eiji Nakatsu, decided to do something about it.
    Ajay Jotwani, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • One man’s trash Naylor’s personal campaign to clean up the river began innocently enough in 2017, when a friend challenged him to stop complaining about trash in the river and do something about it.
    Karen Hendricks, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley is working to do something about that by helping businesses turn food waste into clean energy through an anaerobic digester.
    Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Noise pollution is a serious health concern — and California is trying to do something about it.
    Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • So, last year, after sending dozens of cold emails, McCarty began working with Washington state lawmakers to do something about the issue.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Growing demands that government do something about that could bolster support for repealing the measure.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Too many dead whales are washing ashore, and that has activists calling on President Biden to offshore — to do something about offshore wind energy activity.
    Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But along with the mourning there was a recognition that the community needed to do something about the online bullying that some members have experienced, Ridener said.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • To wrap your head around this gargantuan challenge—let alone start to do something about it—the socialist lens, which focuses on the material conditions of a problem, offers some useful insights.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Also to its credit, the agency — which has so much to focus on, including its own solvency as ridership remains lackluster due to the pandemic — is trying to do something about it even if publicizing violence isn’t exactly great for the bottom line.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Three years ago, eight environmental groups asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency to do something about nitrate contamination in drinking water in northeast Oregon.
    Alex Baumhardt, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023

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