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do for

verb

tr to convict of a crime or offence
they did him for manslaughter
intr to cause the ruin, death, or defeat of
the last punch did for him
intr to do housework for
do well for oneself
to thrive or succeed

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Because nowadays, post-COVID, when I’m meeting somebody new and we’re talking about what we do for a living, the conventional reaction to learning somebody has one of these laptop jobs is to ask whether they’re remote, or at least hybrid, for Christ’s sake.

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I guess I do, for sure—like, before I go, like, oh, you’re gonna be shooting in Atlanta, Georgia . . . yeah, actually, I will look up and see what’s going on.

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“A great sadness fell upon him. Deutschland was behind him forever. He had loved his country. But what he loved was what it used to be, what had been lost. The things it could have been … Pride in a country was what it could do for its people, not what it could take away. Yet here they were. And he would need to get used to it.”

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Trump has spent many years talking about the good that tariffs could do for America's economy – and now he is trying to make it a reality.

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We don't have to be looking at nature in the form that I think far too many people do, that what can they do for us?

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doffer dog

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