do something over
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To find out, you need to replicate; do something over and over again, varying the temperature, water pH, bacterial infection, and more, to find out which of the many options is causing the shrimp decline.
From Slate • Nov. 14, 2024
Why would a rat do something over and over if it didn’t feel good?
From Scientific American • May 4, 2023
I’ve had a lot of jobs and if I had to be told to do something over and over, I would have been fired immediately.”
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2022
“That old way of doing things. where you would do something over here and then do something over there to make up for it, is done,” Lauretti said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022
How many times do you get the chance to do something over again, to do it over right?
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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