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doing it

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present participle of do it

as in sleeping

to engage in sexual intercourse were both in the mood to do it

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Recent Examples of doing it Many are doing it, and some cities are hoping more will join in. — Emily Staunton, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026 But Ma Rainey insists on doing it her way, even if Levee’s version is more interesting from a jazz perspective. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 In so doing it recodes the aesthetic flows the museum celebrates here as of course made visible by newly total conditions of capitalist flow. — George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 For Mitchell, building a family together was never dependent on doing it one particular way. — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026 So nice, doing it twice Brady proposed the special livery to better convey how the T-38 is connected to the Artemis program and its missions. — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026 Others – especially in congested urban areas – have been doing it for a long time. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 UBTech, the one humanoid maker already public in Hong Kong, delivers robots at a similar scale to Unitree and loses roughly 700 million yuan a year doing it. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 By doing it this way, the kids had to put some thought into which items meant the most to them, and there were no complaints afterward. — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

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