do something
idiom
: to take some sort of action to help a situation
Don't just stand there: do something!
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With the midterm election still nearly a year off — and the 2028 presidential contest eons away — many of those angry or despondent over the benighted state of our union desperately wanted to do something to push back.
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Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Adam To, the owner of Howard’s Bar in downtown Stillwater, got tired of doom-scrolling and negative news this week and decided to do something about it.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
Pauline Collins, the exuberant British actress who inspired women — and men, too — to do something to change their unhappy lives with her Oscar-nominated and Olivier- and Tony-winning performances in Shirley Valentine, has died.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
But the world had ended up there by passing through an unbroken series of decisions not to cut emissions and to do something else instead; and this practice had become so habitual and systemic as to threaten to determine the next phase too.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Adam To, the owner of Howard’s Bar in downtown Stillwater, got tired of doom-scrolling and negative news this week and decided to do something about it.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
Pauline Collins, the exuberant British actress who inspired women — and men, too — to do something to change their unhappy lives with her Oscar-nominated and Olivier- and Tony-winning performances in Shirley Valentine, has died.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
But the world had ended up there by passing through an unbroken series of decisions not to cut emissions and to do something else instead; and this practice had become so habitual and systemic as to threaten to determine the next phase too.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Do something.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/do%20something. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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