- present participle of do.
doing
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"I sang live with them and I think they really appreciated that, because it's a very romantic way of doing it," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He is far more assured of what he should be doing for the municipality than Tom is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
So what is the administration doing in response?
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
But it also proved that Ossoff knows what he’s doing.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
If they knew today was their last day, what would they rather be doing than going to school?
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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The mismatch—the strictures of the business world and a galloping imagination—launched Kafka and his innumerable artistic progeny, which continue all the way to today’s deadpan sitcoms detailing strange doings at the office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But given the governing bodies’ reputation for shadowy financial doings, there are reasons to think much of the money will never be properly accounted for.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
The Pike’s louche doings made for great newspaper copy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025
That’s pretty much true of “La Syndicaliste,” a tangled if certainly watchable French true-crime drama about dirty political doings in the nation’s nuclear energy industry.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
There are big doings at the schoolhouse this weekend: a dance to raise money for the Liberty Bonds.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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