doing it

phrase

present participle of do it
as in sleeping
to engage in sexual intercourse were both in the mood to do it

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Recent Examples of doing it For Mitchell, building a family together was never dependent on doing it one particular way. Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026 So nice, doing it twice Brady proposed the special livery to better convey how the T-38 is connected to the Artemis program and its missions. Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026 Others – especially in congested urban areas – have been doing it for a long time. Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 UBTech, the one humanoid maker already public in Hong Kong, delivers robots at a similar scale to Unitree and loses roughly 700 million yuan a year doing it. Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 By doing it this way, the kids had to put some thought into which items meant the most to them, and there were no complaints afterward. R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026 What’s relatable to me is starting to act in the first place, like actually doing it in high school. Wengel Gemu, Vanity Fair, 6 Aug. 2026 But definitely being in it [now] and actually doing it is different. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026 So yeah, this is going to be a lot tougher than the HHOF list, and clearly the Hurricanes doing it while winning the Cup will be a huge outlier. Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 30 July 2026

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“Doing it.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doing%20it. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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