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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Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth round of their fight on Friday night.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth round of their heavyweight fight on Friday night.
—CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth round of their boxing fight on Friday night at Kaseya Center in Miami.
—Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2025
In the first film, released in 2009, Lang arrived as a military enforcer fighting on behalf of the RDA to colonize the planet of Pandora for mankind.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth round of their heavyweight fight on Friday night.
—CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth round of their boxing fight on Friday night at Kaseya Center in Miami.
—Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2025
In the first film, released in 2009, Lang arrived as a military enforcer fighting on behalf of the RDA to colonize the planet of Pandora for mankind.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
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“Fight on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fight%20on. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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