- present participle of do.
doing
Americannoun
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doings
plural
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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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Etymology
Origin of doing
Example Sentences
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"This is the biggest event I've seen in 50 years; I've been doing this a long time."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Anne Applebaum wrote an article for the Atlantic, and the headline was: “Ukraine Is Not Losing. Russia Is Not Winning”—the implication being that Ukraine’s doing better than we thought.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
“She was so tired of doing nothing, I thought I’d give her something funny to type out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Eliminating the cap does not free local broadcasters from economic pressure, it just changes who is doing the squeezing,” Gomez said in a statement issued ahead of the vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Dad looks like he’s doing his best not to roll his eyes at her.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
But given the governing bodies’ reputation for shadowy financial doings, there are reasons to think much of the money will never be properly accounted for.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
The former governor has said he knew nothing about the doings of his secretary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
In 1967, The Times investigated the doings of harbor commissioners, and a grand jury, following up on that, called for indictments of past and present commissioners for perjury and criminal conflicts of interest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
That’s pretty much true of “La Syndicaliste,” a tangled if certainly watchable French true-crime drama about dirty political doings in the nation’s nuclear energy industry.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
There are big doings at the schoolhouse this weekend: a dance to raise money for the Liberty Bonds.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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