carry over
Example Sentences
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This is the correct strategy if you play six times a decade, as you don’t want to waste a good shot, you want to carry over all that momentum you have from March 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
U.S. stocks hit some turbulence in June, and that seemed to carry over into early July, as a powerful momentum trade centered on semiconductor stocks hit a speed bump.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
"Any shortfall in one year doesn't simply carry over in full to the next, because targets and modelling are adjusted based on actual recruitment," they said.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Early in the planning process, the museum surveyed local community members and museumgoers about which features should carry over to the new design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Recognizing faces sounds like a very specific process, but Schooler has shown that the implications of verbal overshadowing carry over to the way we solve much broader problems.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
