don't

[dohnt]

verb

1. contraction of do not.

2. Nonstandard except in some dialects.,  contraction of does not.

noun

1. don'ts, customs, rules, or regulations that forbid something.

   The boss has a long list of don'ts that you had better observe if you want a promotion.

don't

/ dəʊnt /

contraction

1. do not

Word History and Origins

Origin of don't¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

A successful expansion could serve as a national example of how to break the cycle of young former offenders returning to jail instead of becoming productive citizens because they don’t see another path forward, Boyle said.

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“A lot of people don’t want California to change, but California is changing whether they want it to or not,” said Matt Lewis, spokesperson for California YIMBY, one of the bill’s sponsors.

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I know it’s a little trendy right now to say the litigation doesn’t matter—that lower court wins don’t matter because the states are going to lose anyway in the end.

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But his relief was tempered by Hamas' admission that they don't know the whereabouts of all of the dead hostages' bodies.

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“I don’t think most people fully appreciate how complex these inferencing workloads are, when you’re deploying them at data center scale,” he said in an interview Thursday.

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