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perpetrated

verb as in be responsible for

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It was perpetrated by a stranger, on my way home from school.

From Ozy

There were 351 other kinds of incidents, including imposing curfews and perpetrating physical attacks.

NZX hasn’t provided details on who is perpetrating these attacks, besides noting that the attacks appear to have originated “offshore.”

From Fortune

We’ve reached a stage of acknowledging significant injustices in our society, long-term injustices that have been perpetrated.

Most of these acts of violence are perpetrated by intimate partners and family.

Going forward in our war against ISIS, sadly we will likely see more gruesome acts perpetrated by them against Americans.

Kerry, in testimony before Congress, said Barfi had been the victim of an information operation perpetrated by ISIS itself.

It reminded her of the slaughter that the Nazis perpetrated on her relatives in the Ukraine.

Surely it was intentional and perpetrated by Assad or ISIS or a still-unrecognized radical group.

This is the kind of inversion of history that conservatives attack when perpetrated by the left.

This horrid act was perpetrated by crushing their heads with two large stones, as they lay asleep on the ground.

He was at the time envoy to Spain, and the deed was perpetrated by six exiled royalists there.

The mind of the kindly, shoregoing man cannot rightly conceive the monstrosities of cruelty which were perpetrated.

But the youth and inexperience of Riaro excused the enormity of a crime perpetrated under the sanction of the supreme pontiff.

The excesses perpetrated in the country it seems did not by any means divert the attention of the persecutors from Nismes.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to perpetrated, such as: commit, execute, carry out, wreak, inflict, and pull.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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