perpetrate
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Amodei’s main concern, he wrote in the letter, was the risk of authoritarian governments catching up with the U.S. in AI “to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
On Friday, media regulator Roskomnadzor announced it was considering fully banning WhatsApp, accusing it of being a vessel to perpetrate "crime".
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
“The sportsbooks themselves are victims in this case. They themselves did not perpetrate anything unlawful,” said Joseph Nocella Jr., the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
Cryptocurrency is being used to perpetrate crimes that affect all Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
What was interesting about this little insight was that I could see the army had a point, but it still seemed like a sneaky trick to perpetrate on all those simple country folk.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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“When someone perpetrates wrongdoing, it is the fault of that person or those persons who did that,” she said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
“I find myself in the position of a well-intentioned man. It’s difficult. And it’s always difficult if you’re not part of the community, but part of the community that perpetrates the actual action.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2017
Indeed, it is a modern trope: the loving family man who perpetrates acts of cruelty because he is just following orders.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017
Climbing artist and illustrator, Phil Gibson, is also surprisingly dismissive of the project offering, What a pity that Mr Armitage has chosen to carve his scroll across the rocks that he perpetrates to covet.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2012
No, no more pity, then—even less pity—for him who excites to the evil than he who perpetrates it.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue
Instead, Campbell had been the victim of deception perpetrated by her co-trustee, Bianka Hellmich, who was disqualified from being a charity trustee for nine years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The pandemic-era posts from El-Sayed did not celebrate the tragedy or the terrorists who perpetrated the attacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Due to the gravity of the offenses, the location where they were perpetrated, and the fact that he was already out on two separate bonds, Poland initially set his new bond at $1.25 million.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
He had revered the British Museum since he was a teenager and was incensed by the idea that a theft was continuing and that it was being perpetrated by a curator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
He’s in a talkative mood, focusing on what I imagine is his favorite theme: the injustices perpetrated against him by everyone else, all the time.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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In those early days of television, it became the biggest show in the country, and certain people hovering around those who were perpetrating these witch hunts had a lingering, profound effect on the nation’s future.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
The state Attorney General’s office in Florida, where RAD is based, is separately investigating the firm for perpetrating what it described as an apparent “Ponzi scheme,” citing complaints from investors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
While Marissa and Peter pivot between rage and not-quite-mourning, and other characters are perpetrating cooked-up complications to the story, Alcaras conducts an investigation that is so commonsensical it defies the rules of crime fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
“Plaintiffs bring this suit to stop Defendants from perpetrating their anticompetitive scheme and to recover billions in damages,” according to the lawsuit filed in U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025
These detectives admitted to hiding in closets and under beds, posing as ANC members, perpetrating virtually any deception that would enable them to get information about our organization.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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