doing without
Example Sentences
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Imagine how well the economy would be doing without tariffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
"He knows what he's doing without a doubt."
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
There’s usually something that one friend can afford that the others can’t, or something that someone wants to do that someone who doesn’t will resent them for doing without them.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025
An order telling the federal officials to stop what they are doing, without any further consequences for those officials, does not.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
It had been exactly one hundred days since Fred Gray had filed papers to start this lawsuit, and they had been one hundred hard days of walking and doing without and praying.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
