- past participle of perpetrate.
- past tense form of perpetrate.
perpetrated
Example Sentences
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Women's Aid says there are many misconceptions about domestic abuse, external, including that it is only perpetrated by "bad people" rather than being a reflection of sexism in wider society.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Months later, he filed a lawsuit alleging defamation and said CNN had perpetrated “a deliberate scheme to defraud its own audience.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The article leaves room for debate about whether Platner actually perpetrated the worst offenses, which he denies, and whether those offenses should be disqualifying for a Senate candidate.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
On May 1, Instructure said it had “experienced a cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor. We are actively investigating this incident with the help of outside forensics experts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
The dirtiest of all tricks for passive carriage is perpetrated by microbes that pass from a woman to her fetus and thereby infect babies already at birth.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
