march on
phrasal verb
marched on; marching on; marches on
1
: to come toward (a place) in order to attack it
Enemy troops were marching on the city.
2
: to go or continue onward
Time marches on.
Governments come and go, but civilization marches on.
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Will the Bhoys defy the odds, or will Bayern march on to the next round?
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Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
More than 140 police officers were injured in the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, who followed his call to march on the complex that day to protest the certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,spencer Kimball,christina Wilkie,annie Nova,brian Evans,alex Harring,yun Li, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
He strong-armed the Senate into confirming a Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who has a tattoo associated with the Jan. 6 rioters, and the white nationalists who marched on Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Outrage over his brutal death, depicted in the 2014 film Selma, reportedly motivated advocates to march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama a month later.
—Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
More than 140 police officers were injured in the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, who followed his call to march on the complex that day to protest the certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,spencer Kimball,christina Wilkie,annie Nova,brian Evans,alex Harring,yun Li, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
He strong-armed the Senate into confirming a Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who has a tattoo associated with the Jan. 6 rioters, and the white nationalists who marched on Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Outrage over his brutal death, depicted in the 2014 film Selma, reportedly motivated advocates to march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama a month later.
—Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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“March on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/march%20on. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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