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cannot help doing

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cannot help doing something
not able to refrain from doing something; not able not to do something. Anne is such a good cook, I can't help eating everything she serves. Since John loves to shop, he can't help spending money.
See also: cannot, doing, help


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Some bosses cannot help doing or trying to do their subordinates' jobs as well as their own.
Unlike, say, the work of Sherman--which effectively insinuates a mode of reflexivity into an intermedia space--Taylor-Wood's photographic works simply do not articulate the terms of their hybridized medium, no matter how internally contradictory it is; her pared-down films and videos, on the other hand, almost cannot help doing so.
The world is full of ghastly people we cannot help doing business with, they say.
 
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