did

past tense of do
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as in sufficed
to be fitting or proper that outfit just won't do for the opera

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as in served
to be enough even half of that amount of sugar will do

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Recent Examples of did Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, nor did HUD officials. Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025 The two men then said Smollett paid them to stage the attack, and Smollett was charged with filing a false police report; the charges were later dropped after Smollett paid a fine and did community service. Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025 One reason female founders lost control of their businesses more easily than men did is that their employees and customers both held them to higher standards. Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025 First-time students enrolled by the dozens, as did some of the League’s best pupils. Anne Halsey, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025 This person that did this horrible person. Alexandra Koch , Liz Friden, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025 As malls began to contend with dropping traffic and mounting online competition, so did Claire's. Alina Selyukh, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025 Petersik reportedly planned to write a book on Milwaukee street names himself but never did. Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Wisconsin Republicans did the same last year, and similar efforts have been raised in other states. Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for did
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  • Soon, though, Shahn began to doubt whether such pleasant, inoffensive paintings sufficed.
    Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Face-to-face sales are needed where online contracts once sufficed.
    Alla Adam, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • The singer, whose music inspired Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Slayer, and countless other metal bands who performed at the festival, died weeks later, on July 22, prompting worldwide tributes.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Voice and America’s Got Talent also performed quite well, both appearing in the top six entertainment-only programs of the week.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • The living room, which has a single window, is decorated with elegant vintage couches, healthy-looking houseplants, and posters for old Bollywood movies.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Each table is decorated with a small ceramic vase of wildflowers and a flickering pillar candle, and additional wildflower arrangements around the room add texture.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • William offered some surprisingly candid answers about everything from his parents' divorce to how his children — Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7 — coped with Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • As a teen growing up in an abusive household, Morgan coped daily with physical and emotional harm from her mother.
    Laura Schwab Reese, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Ending a war that has caused extraordinary suffering would be a victory on its own.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The very concept of combining social media with AI assistants caused confusion earlier this year.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • Over 30 years later, the event has transcended the Brewers, parodied and imitated in equal measure.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Young Frankenstein, released in 1974, is considered a comedy classic and parodied monster movies of the 1930s, Universal’s Frankenstein films in particular.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
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  • The company has previously settled some of those claims but has not struck a nationwide settlement, so many lawsuits over mesothelioma have proceeded to trial in state courts in recent months.
    Reuters 14 hr ago, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Fallon then proceeded to blow their minds with some facts and figures about the hit soundtrack, which has been on the Billboard 200 album charts for 15 weeks so far.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • The offense played 69 snaps, the defense 53.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • While Gandy played twice in the state of California during his three seasons with the Falcons, there’s an insufficient linkage between the Falcons and California for purposes of workers’ comp coverage.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 13 Oct. 2025

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