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do without
verb
- to forgo; manage without
I can't do without cigarettes
- not to require (uncalled-for comments or advice)
we can do without your criticisms thank you
Idioms and Phrases
Manage in spite of being without something. For example, They will just have to do without a vacation this year , or There was no telephone in the cabin, but we soon learned to do without . [Early 1700s]Example Sentences
Or even, she says, learn to do without.
X / The Observatory / Dec. 27 What on earth is Los Angeles going to do without X?
I think I could do without it, but it would take quite a while to be prepared.
And someone who could address sensitive issues of race and diversity in ways that might be difficult for the white older members in the San Gorgonio chapter to do without drawing fire.
So Villa could probably do without this game - but I still think they will extend their 10-game unbeaten run, and maybe this is when they show us they do have the required strength in depth.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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