soldier on
phrasal verb
soldiered on; soldiering on; soldiers on
: to continue to do something or to try to achieve something even though it is difficult
The researchers encountered many problems but they soldiered on.
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He was detained by Russian soldiers on April 2 of that year, the RIA state news agency quoted the prosecutor as saying last month.
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Reuters, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
Minervini’s agnosticism matches his plain, quasi-doc images — relentlessly dull except when an elderly bearded sergeant watches rebel soldiers on horseback fill the horizon line, riding toward him.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
In the absence of traditional cohost costumes this year, The View still soldiered on with its increasingly hilarious legacy of dressing children in controversial Halloween costumes in celebration of the spooky holiday.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Although touring had lost its allure, Lesh soldiered on with the Dead throughout the increasingly difficult Eighties, when drug problems rocked the band, then into the Nineties, concluding with Garcia’s death.
—Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
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Reuters, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
Minervini’s agnosticism matches his plain, quasi-doc images — relentlessly dull except when an elderly bearded sergeant watches rebel soldiers on horseback fill the horizon line, riding toward him.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
In the absence of traditional cohost costumes this year, The View still soldiered on with its increasingly hilarious legacy of dressing children in controversial Halloween costumes in celebration of the spooky holiday.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Although touring had lost its allure, Lesh soldiered on with the Dead throughout the increasingly difficult Eighties, when drug problems rocked the band, then into the Nineties, concluding with Garcia’s death.
—Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Soldier on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soldier%20on. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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