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
Charter Chief Executive Christopher Winfrey has threatened to “move on” from providing TV service at all, or perhaps permanently doing without Disney’s channels entirely.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023
She wanted to do whatever her family was doing without her, even if it was just looking at all they had lost.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
