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onto

[on-too, awn-, on-tuh, awn-] / ˈɒn tu, ˈɔn-, ˈɒn tə, ˈɔn- /


ADJECTIVE
upon
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upon
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Onto the 2026 outrageous forecasts, and the first —a quantum computer proves it can bust through the most common digital standards, faster than expected.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

Appeared in the October 24, 2025, print edition as 'Hamas Presses To Hang Onto Power in Gaza'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Onto a new topic, Sturgeon is now being asked for her views on a zero-Covid policy.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024

Two years later, he published an article in Electronics, a widely circulated trade magazine, titled, “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits.”

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Onto each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch—metal pannikin of pinkish-gray stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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