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},
{
"form": "staying the course",
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"present"
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},
{
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"text": "If you decide to stay the course and finish engineering school, it will mean long hours and sleepless nights.",
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},
{
"ref": "1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 132",
"text": "This sort of thing is meat and drink to the born Controller—and Controllers are born with the right imperturbable temperament for the job; hence the fact that they are recruited from many different grades of operating staff, and some recruits don't stay the course.",
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"To persist or continue."
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"(idiomatic) To persist or continue."
],
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"word": "go the distance"
},
{
"word": "stay the distance"
}
],
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"word": "stay the distance"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "pysyä suunnitelmassaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "garder le cap"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "trzymać kurs"
},
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"word": "utrzymać kurs"
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"(idiomatic) To persist or continue."
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{
"word": "stay the distance"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "pysyä suunnitelmassaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "garder le cap"
},
{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "trzymać kurs"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "utrzymać kurs"
}
],
"word": "stay the course"
}
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