- present participle of do.
doing
Americannoun
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action; performance; execution.
Your misfortune is not of my doing.
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doings, deeds; proceedings; happenings; events.
noun
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an action or the performance of an action
whose doing is this?
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informal a beating or castigation
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Origin of doing
Example Sentences
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Second, he looked like he knew what he was doing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
The book is doing more than one thing.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
A.I. carpet-bombing will take care of the “easy” hard problems, and in doing so bring our attention to the genuinely hard ones that really matter.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2026
By cutting US interest rates, he indicated his belief that the situation would recover and, in doing so, aided the world economy.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
She walks right up to him and says, “Ell! What are you doing here?”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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