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sustained

adjective as in maintained

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The cost of living crisis, she added, meant people were not able to donate in the way they once could - it was once sustained entirely by them.

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After a knee injury sustained before the Olympic final last August set her back over the winter, two torn hamstrings kept her out of action until just five weeks before the championships.

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The RAF operation comes 85 years after the Battle of Britain, when Polish pilots fought alongside the RAF to thwart sustained German air attacks in Britain's skies during World War Two.

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This though was the sort of sustained glitter that earned her the world player of the year award last December.

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By not allowing ballcarriers to get to the second and third levels of the defense, Ford also is limiting contact sustained by defensive backs, safety Quentin Lake said.

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