carrying on
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Jeanie helped oversee another dynastic run in the 2000s, when the Lakers added five more trophies—all while carrying on a Hollywood romance with the team’s head coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"We're still carrying on, because everything had been prepared in advance: the equipment, the repairs, the licence, the taxes," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
He endured the long weeks alone at sea by meditating and carrying on conversations with the ocean and wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Later, the traffic cone guys reappeared, still smiling, still singing, still carrying on like they were having the time of their lives, which they undoubtedly are.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Their argument had been carrying on for days, until the house was too preoccupied with the influx of new people into its rooms to pay attention.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
It was less of an axiom than an ethos for a carrying-on, proud people:
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2014
Ms. Murphy juxtaposes the comedy, the heartache and the carrying-on with a deft hand, so that sentimentality is kept at bay.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2010
Well, there couldn’t have been any carrying-on down at the store or we’d have heard about it long time ago.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“That’s what she’s struggling with. The carrying-on part. Is she there?”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
It was, if you like, his ethic, the criterion of his integrity, the inexorable condition of carrying-on in his career.
From Command by William McFee
Most of the lame comedic scenes in the opera involve Strauss’s attempts to depict the baron’s absurd carryings-on.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2019
At times such carryings-on have been known to get out of hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Friends report no apparent danger that either is about to indulge in celebrity carryings-on.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Paris, Alexander Dumas Jr., most prominent of Dumas' illegitimate "Five Hundred," watched his old man's carryings-on with mingled affection and dismay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once she was complaining about the carryings-on at the jook and Tea Cake snapped, “Aw, don’t make God look so foolish—findin’ fault wid everything He made.”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
