without further ado

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Also, without more ado. Without more work, ceremony, or fuss. For example, Without further ado they adjourned the meeting and went home, or And now, without more ado, here is our speaker of the day. This idiom has one of the few surviving uses of the noun ado, meaning “what is being done.” (Another is much ado about nothing.) [Late 1300s]

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without a stitch on, without batting an eye, withoutdoors, without doubt, without fail, without further ado, without question, without so much as, with reason, with reference to, withstand

How to use without further ado in a sentence

Without it, they say, the disease would surely kill her within two years.
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Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.
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The research literature, too, asks these questions, and not without reason.
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Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.
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I remember all our music appeared on Spotify overnight, without anybody asking us.
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He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
She had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.
Confidence|Henry James
Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various