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Alternatively, may want to keep at least part of the money in a high-yield savings account or money-market account to safeguard it from the corrosive powers of inflation.

From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026

“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

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

The perpetrator would have to keep at least one clue from his victims to feign innocence, but a subtle inconsistency would allow others to infer his guilt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

I tried to keep at a distance, but as soon as the new group spied us, they came over to investigate.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer