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

"He knows what he's doing without a doubt."

From BBC • Dec. 14, 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

“Melba likes suffering and doing without; that’s why she goes to Central. But why do I have to?”

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