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
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
"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 became a rare symbol of institutional continuity: A regular bit-part character keeping calm and carrying on during a merry-go-round of political change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Elizebeth gave her new recruits a “crash course” in code breaking, all while carrying on with her usual workload.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
"Stop carrying-on the way you do—with Mr. Flack."
From The Reverberator by Henry James
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
But the Sick Crew's carryings-on form only the mundane, or Profane, surface of this weird chronicle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rube Waddell and the boys in fact would choke on their chaws of tobacco if they could see some of the carryings-on at the ballparks these days.
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
