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  • To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest...  (source)
  • "You're helping perpetuate this fraud," he told Lori.†  (source)
  • I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him.†  (source)
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  • Stephano looked back at all these people silently, his face fluttering as he tried to decide whether to come clean, a phrase which here means "admit that he's really Count Olaf and up to no good," or perpetuate his deception, a phrase which here means "lie, lie, lie."†  (source)
    perpetuate = cause to continue
  • And if it can't end, then it should at least continue into perpetuity like the adventures of Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem's platoon.†  (source)
  • These regimes, they note, propped up economic elites who resisted reforms and perpetuated unequal political and economic systems.†  (source)
  • "Sophie," Langdon said, "the Priory's tradition of perpetuating goddess worship is based on a belief that powerful men in the early Christian church 'conned' the world by propagating lies that devalued the female and tipped the scales in favor of the masculine."†  (source)
  • It was, however, an autocracy by consent, for they were united from top to bottom by a commonly held ideology whose perpetuation was the reason and justification for all their sufferings.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • As Merton puts it: "This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error.†  (source)
  • The sublimities, the perpetuities, might have left him as he was: but this tent pitched for a day's revelry spread a roof of oblivion between himself and his fixed sky.†  (source)
  • My dad liked to believe I was as popular and adventuresome as he was at my age—a myth it had always seemed easiest to perpetuate.†  (source)
  • Both parties have hereby fulfilled their obligations to each other in perpetuity" I'm just rattling off lawyer words.†  (source)
  • Comrade Pillai, grateful for the misunderstanding, perpetuated it.†  (source)
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