carrying on
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She explains that her parents used to bring her and her twin sister, and now she's carrying on the tradition with the next generation.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
When you think about someone eventually carrying on the “Survivor” legacy, is that something that excites you?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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
Every so often she’d flap her hands and say something too quiet for Emily to hear over the TV noise, like she was carrying on a one-sided conversation.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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
Curt, dear, we don't think anything except what you've made us think with your crazy carrying-on.
From The First Man by Eugene O'Neill
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
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
But the Sick Crew's carryings-on form only the mundane, or Profane, surface of this weird chronicle.
From Time Magazine Archive
So catholic a taste in carryings-on suggests the author's father, Evelyn Waugh.
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
