perpetrate
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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.’
From MarketWatch • Oct. 24, 2025
Cryptocurrency is being used to perpetrate crimes that affect all Americans.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025
"The government of North Korea has trained and deployed thousands of IT workers to perpetrate this same scheme against US companies every day."
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2024
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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