live on

phrasal verb

lived on; living on; lives on
: to continue to exist
His legend lives on.

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If your Microsoft documents live on your local machine, remote collaboration isn't possible. PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025 The celebration will rightfully continue for a little while longer, and the memory of this fateful game will live on for generations with the best of baseball lore. Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025 Those moments, the quiet ones between pictures, are the ones that live on in the images. Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025 By likening the world to a stage and seeing ourselves as the actors living on it, this meta motif — while classical in concept — resonates strongly as a universal theme for those of us living today. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for live on

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“Live on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live%20on. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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