grind on

phrasal verb

ground on; grinding on; grinds on
: to continue for a long time
used to describe something unpleasant
The war ground on for many more months.

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Witkoff had been in Paris for talks about Ukraine as Russia’s full-scale war there grinds on. Matthew Lee and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025 Players can use new items, like an ice flower to freeze enemies and a mega mushroom to grow and squish them, grind on rails, defy gravity by wall-jumping and turn their karts into boats or airplanes. Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025 But as the war grinds on, patriotism begins to waver for some, replaced by a single, desperate desire: survival. Iuliia Mendel, TIME, 29 Jan. 2025 As Russia's war in Ukraine grinds on, it's become clear that Eastern European NATO members still have vast stores of Soviet-era weapons in their stockpiles that weren't interoperable with Western weaponry. TIME, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grind on

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“Grind on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grind%20on. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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