keep at

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“We have all these song ideas from all these years, and we just keep at it. Knowing we’ve got another record to do keeps us going.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

In effect: Set it and keep at it.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

Maye says he and his teammates just want to keep at it.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Until then, he says, he will keep at it himself: "This is my ideal. If you have this ideal, you must persist. You can't not."

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

He was probably twelve or thirteen and only saw Vonetta and Janice as pests he could both mess with and keep at a distance.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia