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• That said, sometimes the thing that feels the most good does not do the most good.
  — Hazlitt, 11 Oct. 2023
• Smith plans to do all the on-field drills Thursday and will also run the 40-yard dash but will not do the bench press.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• And Charlie Day showed up to his movie premiere but did not do press.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
• None of them have shed much light on what Altman did or did not do that triggered the board to eject him.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023
• What Sherwin did not do, however, was sit down and write.
  — David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• Which is not to say that mainstream companies cannot do a good job with Latin music.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 17 July 2023
• The Biden administration had two years to prepare for this and did not do so.
  — CBS News, 7 May 2023
• Leaf’s Bolts did what San Diego’s perfect weather could not do, toughening up the young guy for the football life to come.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
• Yet these figures do not do full justice to the enormity of its power.
  — Sandeep Vaheesan, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Maybe the most Chloë Sevigny thing of all is to not do what hundreds of other New Yorkers are doing.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 May 2023
• Part of getting there is understanding what salt does and does not do in cooking.
  — Becky Krystal, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
• That’s because your GI tract may not do a great job of absorbing nutrients from your food.
  — Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 30 May 2023
• Bob Einstein, Funkhouser, Super Dave could not do wrong.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2024
• Roughly 2½ years into his tenure, Woodson has a roster that cannot do that.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• Yet this vaccine did not do well in a field study, in which many of the vaccinated females became pregnant.
  — Jessica P. Hekman, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• The city did not shut its causeways last year and will not do so this year, officials said, citing concerns about the legality of the move.
  — Aaron Leibowitz Miami Herald (tns), al, 20 Mar. 2023
• Castle battled the world’s best amateurs once with a rib injury, so why not do it again at one of the game’s most demanding courses?
  — Adam Woodard, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2023
• This creates confusion and often leads team members to feel unsure about what they are required to do or not do.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Harming women and children and inflicting terror does not and should not do any good for the Free Palestine movement.
  — Vulture, 26 Oct. 2023
• And here is something Jeff would not do as a producer: randomly send one person over to a new tribe without protection in the game.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• Cancer patients now have their choice among an array of very expensive options that might or might not do anything for them.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Also, rough bluegrass will not do well in the summer unless it is irrigated some.
  — oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
• Typically, the justices lean on precedent to defend their rulings, but the justices cannot do so in the Trump Colorado ballot case.
  — Jessica A. Schoenherr, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• The letter also revealed that Viracon, a company that fabricated the glass, did not do the heat-soaking steps.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• This one will probably not do much to help your already — erm — complicated image.
  — Vulture, 11 Mar. 2023
• The troops will not do law-enforcement work and will be sent down for roughly 90 days, but their presence can be extended if necessary, officials said.
  — The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
• Here’s a dismal fact for you: The majority of Californians who are eligible to vote in the primaries do not do so.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The Federal Reserve will remain measured and data-based in its decision-making and will not do anything rash.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Despite their success in terms of awards and international recognition, many such projects do not do good business.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 8 Apr. 2023
• Max’s workplace comedy about pirates may not do this with the depth that Hartman does, but the intent is similar: to share stories Ferrer describes as begging to be put on screen.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024