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onto

[on-too, awn-, on-tuh, awn-] / ˈɒn tu, ˈɔn-, ˈɒn tə, ˈɔn- /


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upon
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upon
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Onto, which makes chip-inspection equipment, said on its November earnings call that strength in its advanced packing business is partly from its HBM customers.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 3, 2026

Appeared in the October 24, 2025, print edition as 'Hamas Presses To Hang Onto Power in Gaza'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Onto a new topic, Sturgeon is now being asked for her views on a zero-Covid policy.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024

Two years later, he published an article in Electronics, a widely circulated trade magazine, titled “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits.”

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Onto the shirt, she had sewn four carefully hoarded brass buttons, gleaming, each marked with the French flower that the voyageurs called fleur-de-lis.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich




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