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facing certain defeat, disaster, or death at this point retailing in the city's downtown is done

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past participle of do
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to be enough even half of that amount of sugar will do

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Recent Examples of done
Adjective
Owner Jason Boso fixed that, infusing $2 million into the 10-year-old bar on better bathrooms, a covered section of the patio and a re-done kitchen. Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
Verb
Once there was an agreement on wages, both sides were eager to get workers back on the job as soon as possible, even if there is still more to be done on the rest of the contract. Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024 Recognition doesn't always have to come in the form of bonuses or awards; sometimes, verbal acknowledgment of a job well done is enough. Tanya Arturi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 In other words, what Team Xi has done to date isn’t gaining the traction economists hoped. William Pesek, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 Where Salesforce Could Go From Here What Salesforce announced at Dreamforce is impressive, and the company has done a very good job of demystifying AI and presenting an aligned product strategy. Jason Andersen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 Some tasks are highly complex but need to be done quickly, while others take much longer to develop and execute, requiring strategic foresight and long-term planning. Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for done
Adjective
  • The reality, though, is that even something as apparently low-tech as cooking a potato chip can require over half a dozen different machines to mix, roll, slice, reclaim scraps, fry, sort, flavor and package the finished product.
    Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The finished product stands 8 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide when the dark green leaves are fanned out and features five blooming flowers of various sizes.
    Clint Davis, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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  • David believes this is just her exhausted mind playing tricks, attributing it to postpartum depression, stress, and fatigue.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This means that athletes can train longer before becoming exhausted.
    Maria Berentzen, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
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  • Then, the team matches the extinct animal with a close living relative and uses video and computer vision techniques to translate the modern animal’s movements into mathematical representations.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The deep-water species belongs to a group of animals known as arthropods—an incredibly diverse group of invertebrates with jointed limbs and a hard shell known as an exoskeleton, which includes arachnids, insects and crustaceans, as well as extinct animals like trilobites.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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  • There are places that are just biblically gone.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
  • With daylight gone and no helicopter access to the high-altitude area, the pair were told to shelter in place overnight.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • The top 10 were all white men (shocker), but four Black billionaires made the list this year, too.
    Zoya Hasan, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The discovery was made by an anonymous treasure hunter who had successfully solved the complex puzzles the hunt’s creator set out.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • The first house was decorated with dozens of crosses; Hahn braced for a tense interaction, but no one was home.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Inside, the dining room was decorated with white roses, with a state-of-the-art performance stage for the band and a separate dessert room created specifically for the event.
    Alexandra Macon, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • Selecting the right Salesforce managed services provider is an important factor in a business decision regarding Salesforce deployment and post-deployment management.
    Vamsi Gosu, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The club managed over the last three years to break Wadi Degla’s domination and its spending is proof of its interest in the women’s game.
    Assile Toufaily, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • For each service ticket, there’s a range of data available, including when the ticket was created and resolved, where multi-hops occurred and where the service process stalled or ran into difficulties.
    Shoeb Javed, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Five Trail is the flagship whiskey brand under Coors Spirits, created as a blend of American whiskies.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024

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