as in suitcase
a bag carried by hand and designed to hold a traveler's clothing and personal articles
the airline allows two carry-ons per person
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1
as in to raise hell
to behave badly
a toddler crying and carrying on in the store
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as in to persist
to continue despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement
she bravely carried on despite the loss of her husband
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as in to operate
to look after and make decisions about
carries on a business and still manages to run the household
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Recent Examples of carry-on
Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
Items commonly available include: Knives and Multi-Tools: Frequently confiscated due to carry-on restrictions.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
This season has been too disastrous, too injury-plagued and too disjointed to carry on into the future, right?
—Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
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The fantasy is showing up at the airport with your 99-year-old grandfather—cane in one hand and unconcealed, carry-on katana in the other—and accompanying him in an adjoining seat, like Uma Thurman and her sword in Kill Bill: Vol. 1.
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By processes that no one has fully defined—simultaneous evolution, or international sales of plants and bulbs, or fungal spores carried on the wind—lethal azole-resistant Aspergillus spread worldwide.
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Generic V-neck Sweater $7 $6 at Amazon This classic sweater deserves a spot in your suitcase.—
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While Banks slept, a 31-year-old man swiped his suitcase, brought it to another car and pulled out a blanket to sleep with.—
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For people with core self-hatred, even when depression is treated, the self-hatred persists.—
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As the judge untangles the dueling narratives, one persists.—
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Open for lunch Tuesdays through Saturdays, Pearl’s Diner operates a bit like a meat ‘n’ three.—
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Those who leave will take with them decades of experience running agents, understanding how foreign governments operate, building trust with international counterparts, and spotting meaningful anomalies.—
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Gracie using Benjamin Bratt to act out self-defense moves on national TV?—
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Vanessa Saba Listen to this article · 5:23 min Learn more By Christina Caron Feb. 20, 2025 When Jennifer S. Wortham was a teenager, her younger brother Patrick started acting out and getting in trouble at school.—
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Only two tracks have managed to lead the Hot Dance/Pop Songs list since its inception six weeks ago.—
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The park service maintains and manages more than 400 natural, cultural, and recreational sites, along with about 26,000 historic structures.—
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Instead of hospital beds, jail cells or the streets, Carroll Respite provides structured, medically supervised care for vulnerable individuals.—
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The restoration was supervised by Ross Lipman and Jillian Borders, in consultation with Burnett.—
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There is no right to openly violate the law and disobey law enforcement.—
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Todd Orlowski, 53, of Danbury was taken into custody on an arrest warrant on Friday on charges of reckless driving, disobeying signal of an officer and engaging police in pursuit, according to Connecticut State Police.—
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The administration also scrambled to rescind firings of hundreds of employees at an agency that oversees the nation's arsenal of nuclear weapons.—
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For example, the plan instructs the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, to come up with at least $880 billion in cuts — more than half of the reductions laid out in the budget outline.—
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“Carry-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carry-on. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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