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You could sell this to people and call it a retreat—they’d pay good money for this level of do-nothingness.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2019

But Herbert Hoover clung to the philosophy of the good neighbor, continued to translate it into official do-nothingness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anti-Yorty jokes, aimed at the mayor's do-nothingness, are as common in Los Angeles as smog, traffic jams and starlets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under Secretary for Peacekeeping, bridled at the charges of U.N. do-nothingness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Queen's royal beef-eaters come next; but that, I think, I could endure, as their state of do-nothingness is not so absolute a quantity.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony




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