carrying on
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Parton’s solo career spanned equally divisive times, launching at the height of the Vietnam War and carrying on for everything that came afterwards.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
In Tbilisi, Ms. Goldberg and her friends bonded with an 11-year-old boy named Avi who, through complicated means, was already carrying on a correspondence with a Jewish boy in Philadelphia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Ryan dedicated his life to service, proudly carrying on his family’s legacy as a third-generation member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” Luna said in a statement Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The directors, Miriam Ekhator and Davidson Lynch-Shyllon, were disqualified from carrying on and/or managing or having a financial interest in a children's home.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
My friends had, in any case, turned away and were carrying on with what they’d been doing.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
“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
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
At last my grandfather he stopt and pulled hisself together with an awful face, and says he: 'We're Christmas pie for the carrying-on crows if we don't prove ourselves human.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
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
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
In the Pallottine order, carryings-on over cash WHY A SWEEPSTAKES? screamed the copy in the direct-mail ad.
From Time Magazine Archive
What with Hewlett's carryings-on and the crowds of people tramping in and out to look at her living-room ceiling.
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
