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• The world is choking in plastic trash, and the UN wants to do something to fix it.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2022
• With a runner on third base, my job is to get the ball in play and do something to get him in.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2023
• Book said people can do something to make their dogs safer.
  — Anthony Man South Florida Sun-Sentinel (tns), al, 23 Feb. 2023
• Just try to do something to distract you from any troubles.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• Instead, do something to help your co-workers catch up.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• Sadly, if Google doesn't do something to change the situation, the price will kill this version of the Pixel Watch.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
• May said the methods offer a means for people eager to do something to address the problem.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2023
• Still, both Rapoza and Perry say the government needs to do something to help its citizens.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2022
• Since Biden took office, progressives had implored him to do something to ease the burden of the soaring cost of college.
  — Erin B. Logan staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• Will Ticketmaster’s plan to stagger ticket sales and to do something to fend off bots result in a glitch-free process?
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• Section 4 of the act is a knee-jerk reaction in response to the mounting pressure on Congress to do something to address the opioid crisis.
  — Jason Kletter, STAT, 23 Dec. 2022
• American was going to have to do something to resize itself.
  — Ted Reed, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Justice of the Peace Bill Ussery agreed the county needed to do something to expand the jail, saying the number of prisoners processed through the jail increased by 1,000 this year compared to last.
  — Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2022
• The icon took to Instagram to air her grievances about the ever-escalating spam on the app and insists that the Meta-run platform do something to counteract it.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 25 Apr. 2023
• But the job of government is to foresee these eventualities and do something to protect against them.
  — Reid Frazier, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• Pellegrini believes that prep schools need to do something to counteract the loss of players to these academies.
  — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• To earn the cancer awareness patch, Girls Scouts must do three things: learn about childhood cancer, raise awareness for childhood cancer and do something to support patients and families.
  — Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2022
• However, Yellen suggested the government may try to do something to shore up companies that had large, uninsured deposits with SVB.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 12 Mar. 2023
• Scott Spiker, who represents many residents near the airport, demanded that the company do something to reduce noise.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
• The big question in the coming days is whether parties will actually agree to do something to help poorer countries recover—or merely keep talking about doing something.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2022
• The eighth and latest hearing set out in excruciating detail how Trump fiddled while the Capitol riot raged, members of Congress fled for their lives, and Cabinet members, aides, and even his kids begged him to do something to stop it.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• As Russia loses territory, there is a persistent anxiety that Putin will do something to offset his military’s initial failings.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Now with climate change threatening ever more heat waves and wetter storms in California, riders and transit advocates are demanding officials do something to provide cover from the elements.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• For families who care about both, there's an opportunity on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to celebrate the holidays and do something to support Wisconsin's natural habitats.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024