do without
Example Sentences
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In recent weeks, the stock market has had to make do without momentum from memory and other highflying chip stocks that had driven lofty first-half gains.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Tuchel, correctly, decided he could not do without Bellingham's class and big tournament experience.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Meanwhile, we could do without descriptions of Harry Truman’s attire at Potsdam or what Kurt Weill wrote to Lotte Lenya on V-E Day—a dozen years after the couple fled Europe for show-business success in America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Alaa Merahi, who was driving with his wife and children, told AFP: "We're returning to our south, to the free land... we can't do without the southern land."
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
“Then my friends will just have to make do without us.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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