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
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
And I’ll say it upfront to the audience: the show I will be doing without my writers will not be as good as our normal show, full stop.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
The trouble is that they are in fact like dreams, and not necessarily bad ones, and we may have a hard time doing without them.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
