- present participle of do.
doing
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Those who resist the urge to use their precious time doing anything else will be rewarded not with payoff, but indictment.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
"Councils are not doing enough," it concludes, "with people on low incomes and living in more deprived areas reporting worse experiences of services and higher levels of disaffection."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Any way you can shoot yourself in the foot, we were doing it on the offensive side of the ball,” Stafford said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
More than 2,500 ballots had been misplaced in the original count, but were found while doing the recount.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
“We’ll be together, Betsie? We’re doing all this together? You’re sure about that?”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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 former governor has said he knew nothing about the doings of his secretary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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
Hare replied with a lie, but continued to sing about the doings of the clever hare, who was no longer thirsty and had clean fur.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
