do, doing
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There’s something exhilarating about watching people who are the best at what they do doing the thing they do.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
So I went, “Well, I can make as much here as I do doing that job.”
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022
Using Post-it notes you visualize your to-do list in three columns: to do, doing, and done.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2019
Seeing the two of them together, doing what they do, doing what they love to do, which they have not done since “Step Up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2016
He could see them in their leather flight jackets, their dark mantles, having just come down from doing things that smaller, punier men could never do, doing things that only gods could do.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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