carrying on
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"It's really important because even if people are working and carrying on with daily life, I know everyone is still traumatised," said the 40-year-old woman.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
She is carrying on the legacy of Philadelphia as not just a great music city, but a city rich in history and heavily influenced by those that came before them.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
"People see us carrying on and it gives hope that beer isn't going to die in Burton."
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Who do you see as a younger musician carrying on what you guys do?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Annabeth’s mind split into two different levels: one carrying on the conversation, the other madly grasping for a scheme to survive.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
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 Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph
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
The occasion for these campy carryings-on was a festival of 19th century music presented by Kansas City's venturesome, three-year-old Performing Arts Foundation.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Sick Crew's carryings-on form only the mundane, or Profane, surface of this weird chronicle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Friends report no apparent danger that either is about to indulge in celebrity carryings-on.
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
