fight on
phrasal verb
fought on; fighting on; fights on
: to continue fighting
He vowed that he would fight on alone.
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Take that fight on, because that's a fight worth fighting for, and that's a hill worth dying on.
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ABC News, 2 Feb. 2025
The fighting in the east of the DRC has been so brutal that the some 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited by the country to fight on its side were forced to surrender, ultimately taking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping base, Romania’s state broadcaster TVR reported.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
The Biden administration did not give Ukraine weapons in time before Russia's 2022 invasion and so the Ukrainians were left to fight on their own at the start of the war, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Hamas and other fighter groups are deeply rooted in Palestinian society and are likely to move with the refugees, which would mean that future wars would be fought on Egyptian soil.
—Joseph Krauss, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
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ABC News, 2 Feb. 2025
The fighting in the east of the DRC has been so brutal that the some 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited by the country to fight on its side were forced to surrender, ultimately taking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping base, Romania’s state broadcaster TVR reported.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
The Biden administration did not give Ukraine weapons in time before Russia's 2022 invasion and so the Ukrainians were left to fight on their own at the start of the war, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Hamas and other fighter groups are deeply rooted in Palestinian society and are likely to move with the refugees, which would mean that future wars would be fought on Egyptian soil.
—Joseph Krauss, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
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“Fight on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fight%20on. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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