fight on

verb

fought on; fighting on; fights on
: to continue fighting
He vowed that he would fight on alone.

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The two longtime lawyers have staked their fight on starkly different visions of the job. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Millions of German troops were tied down fighting on the Eastern Front and in Italy, but Hitler had a million more elsewhere in Europe to use as reinforcements, as well as the troops of Axis partners. — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026 Its government, dominated by hardened veterans of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and largely indifferent to the suffering of the Iranian population, appears determined to fight on. — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026 This isn’t an AI fighting on its own The T800 was remotely controlled by a human operator. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fight on

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“Fight on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fight%20on. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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