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[doo, doo, duh] / du, dʊ, də /








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We’ve had a lot of things to do.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

She can do the latter only if she receives a positive recommendation from the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

One of the most dangerous things we can do when planning for our retirement is projecting the recent past into the indefinite future.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

He said he had "always wanted to do" the show, joking that because of his short-lived football managerial career, he had more time on his hands.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

No matter what I do, it’s always going to be there.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Everyone has sartorial do’s and don’ts for the office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

On ICYMI, host Kate Lindsay and Slate tech editor Tony Ho Tran break down the digital do’s and don’ts for couples, and argue that the thing that ruined dating might actually be making relationships better.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Across schools, the bigger fix would be more precision from administrators on AI do’s and don’ts, Anand said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

The DMA is part of the European Union's bolstered legal armoury that seeks to make the digital sphere fairer with a list of do's and don'ts for Big Tech.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

Occasionally, during a general conversation about do’s and don’t’s, I would share some information that I thought would be helpful to them, but otherwise I kept my mouth shut.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

A cameraman proclaimed “¡Muy bien!” when Raman rattled off an “uno, dos, tres” mic check.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Felicidade Alves dos Santos Martins, whose daughter Febrianti was home from middle school, said the pollution had been even worse earlier in the week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The nearly 20-acre property is located near Angra dos Reis, a coastal region around two hours from Rio de Janeiro.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The researchers are now testing moringa seed extract on water collected from the Paraíba do Sul River, which supplies São José dos Campos.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026

I flashed back to Annette and Renee’s matching super-short dos, and suddenly, it all made sense.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

The governor does have the power to grant 30-day reprieves in capital cases.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

“Taking off the uniform does not reset a family’s finances.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

"That doesn't mean you agree with everything another government does," he went on, adding that he was not "opining about their journalists".

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

“But now it’s really about looking at AI and how does it drive your strategy forward.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Zara looks back at us and does one of those jerks of her head that tells us to follow her, before she disappears into the throng of people lining the hall, pulled by Beth-not-Shayna.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

There was a time when Sabbath did take a slightly different approach to writing and recording, but it wasn’t at their own initiative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Focusing on the flaws in the criminal justice system, as Hinojosa did, has helped drive down support for capital punishment in many other places in this country.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

"They don't have the same kind of novelty as they once did," she added.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

What the market did with that research, though, there was no way of knowing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

“I get that. We did a whole section on the Holocaust last year. I could actually feel my heart breaking, just reading about all the horrific things that happened.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

I don’t know what I could have done, but I did do that,” Iommi says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Sandisk “does not view itself as supply constrained,” he said, and given its high profitability, it has little incentive to increase supply in the way it might have done previously.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

During his speech before troops, veterans and top officials in his administration, Trump namechecked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was in attendance, saying he had "done a fantastic job."

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

However, the experts found that while Bertulazzi had tampered with the device, he had done so to prevent the alarm from sounding once he removed it.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

But as much as I want to play my cello for hours on end, I know that I need to get my homework done or face Dad.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

I picture him and Agatha, like, in witch training, and now, by the time we see him, he’s fully formed, in his power, knows what he’s doing with it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Today’s executives, he noted, learned the business doing exactly the work AI is taking over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Start with the board doing the job it should have been doing all along.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

National governments in many countries are doing what they can to prepare but the extent of El Niño's impact is impossible to predict.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

‘Let him go! He’s not doing you any harm!’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver


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