It's the doing of the good deed that is important, not the thanks you receive.
is that mess in the kitchen your doing?
Recent Examples on the WebOwen is dashing with a cigarette and suit and the twisty plot which pulls in Cold War, religious doings, and espionage.—Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024 Much of this illusion resulted from Liszt’s sorcery in translating the score for the piano; the rest was Levit’s doing.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 The Klan and its ghoulish doings were greatly diminished, but the hate endured.—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023 That means the press had plenty of time to cover Hunter Biden’s doings, even if some wondered what his father was up to.—Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024 Zuiker, 54, has been much in the headlines for his real estate doings in recent years.—James McClain, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2024 Cooperman does a splendid job lacing these lines of inquiry through the essay while also suggesting that trying too hard to answer them risks missing the point of creating and experiencing beauty—which is to say, the doing and the feeling.—Longreads, 1 Mar. 2024 Johnson’s go-to flavor of the drink is one of his own doing.—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024 After surviving a poisoning widely seen as the Kremlin’s doing in 2020 and recovering in Germany, Mr. Navalny returned to Russia in 2021, and was immediately arrested.—Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
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