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on end

Idioms  

  1. Continuously, without interruption, as in It's been raining for days on end. This term, which might just as well be put “seemingly without end,” dates from about 1300.

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Widespread damage could keep energy prices high for months on end, regardless of whether Hormuz is reopened to traffic.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

What began as a way to autocomplete code quickly evolved into semiautonomous AI bots, or “agents,” that can work for hours on end with little human oversight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Electricity is turned off for hours on end to ration supplies, and more than 1,000 of Kyiv's 12,000 high-rise residential buildings have been without heating for the past month after a heating station was destroyed.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

She also watched YouTube videos for hours on end, noting that the platform's "autoplay" feature, where a new video starts automatically after the previous one has ended, kept her on it.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

And he makes up these cockalamie stories to stand my hair on end about being a flying fighter.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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