at it
idiom
: doing some activity
I didn't expect her to have started working yet, but she was already (hard) at it when I arrived.
My neighbors are always arguing, and they were at it again last night.
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Let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it.
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Nik Popli, Time, 17 Nov. 2025
The father eventually takes up a hobby of his own—playing the saxophone—and is dedicated but mediocre at it.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
When the human actually goes in to look at it, what is the human doing?
—Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2025
The film opens with a montage of nameless women across different eras and places smiling invitingly toward the camera, then frowning and glaring at it, and finally screaming while drenched in blood.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
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Nik Popli, Time, 17 Nov. 2025
The father eventually takes up a hobby of his own—playing the saxophone—and is dedicated but mediocre at it.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
When the human actually goes in to look at it, what is the human doing?
—Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2025
The film opens with a montage of nameless women across different eras and places smiling invitingly toward the camera, then frowning and glaring at it, and finally screaming while drenched in blood.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for at it
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“At it.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20it. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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