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Perhaps if he had soldiered through in 2015, the votes would have turned up eventually.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2023

But one of the most chilling changes was the total shuttering of the Broadway theater — an American institution that previously had soldiered on through wars, terrorist attacks and economic downturns.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022

The surprise is not that she finally caved in, before that vast and hectoring throng in Belgrade, but that she had soldiered through previous large-scale ventures intact.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 1, 2015

Both he and Joakim lost spouses, he pointed out, and they had soldiered on.

From New York Times • May 22, 2010

But he had soldiered on the job and the place was deserted.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers