do, doing
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There’s something exhilarating about watching people who are the best at what they do doing the thing they do.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
So I went, “Well, I can make as much here as I do doing that job.”
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022
If not doing anything is the right thing to do, doing nothing is just as worthy of praise as a conspicuous statement of intent.
From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2016
Seeing the two of them together, doing what they do, doing what they love to do, which they have not done since “Step Up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2016
Once Omnictionary had told us what to do, doing it proved surprisingly easy.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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