do someone
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Then again, the notion that any piece of writing, obituary or otherwise, can do someone justice is probably absurd.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025
"Whatever they do, someone if going to be very unhappy."
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
Don said, “You can’t quit. If you do, someone else will come in and do everything they’re told to do.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2022
“Sometimes I’ll do someone else’s desk, and I actually like it more than my own.”
From The Verge • Aug. 3, 2022
Instead, as politely as I could, I asked, “Mr. Blessington, why do we always do Robert Frost, why can’t we do someone else?”
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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