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do over

[doo-oh-ver] / ˈduˌoʊ vər /
VERB
beat up
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"You can feel like this person is targeting you, and when we first started getting these it felt a little bit like someone trying to do over the festival," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Fed Chair Jerome Powell seemed to indicate that the he would defer to nominee Fed chair Kevin Warsh—likely to take over before the June meeting—about what to do over the language.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

What we can do—what many of us try to do over the course of our lives—is find our own unique hill on which we occupy the top and take our egoistic satisfaction that way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

“Additionally, because concertina coils are rigid and stay under tension, they don’t ‘sag’ or create the loose, invisible snares that single-strand wires often do over time, which helps reduce the risk of accidental wildlife entanglement.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

Everyone asked, “What did you do over the summer?”

From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements




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