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do out of
Idioms and Phrases
Cheat or deprive someone of something. For example, Jane tried to do me out of my inheritance but the lawyer wouldn't let her . [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
Part of the problem is that domestic work is undervalued and often dismissed as “caregiving work that women were just expected to do out of the goodness of their hearts” rather than professional work deserving of labor protections, said Julie Vogtman, senior counsel for the National Women’s Law Center.
Giuliani said that the jury's ruling is "absurd," adding that he will appeal the decision and explaining that he didn't testify Thursday, which he'd insisted Wednesday he would do, out of fear of being held in contempt by the judge.
“That’s something that Trump would do out of gratitude, if not out of a desire to watch the opposition lose their minds,” he said.
“Some people might find it surprising that these kinds of linguistic generalization tasks are really hard for systems like GPT-4 to do out of the box,” Solar-Lezama says.
The embassy has been in lockdown for several weeks with sporadic protests around it raising pressure on Paris to bring back its envoy, something that Macron had stoically refused to do out of principle.
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