perpetuate
Example Sentences
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Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson rejected that plan, saying it would perpetuate the whales' exploitation.
From Barron's
Both books show how enslaved people exerted pressure against slaveholders, militias and the political leaders who sought to perpetuate systems of forced labor.
The cases are using a similar script to past ones accusing pharmaceutical companies of perpetuating the opioid epidemic or tobacco companies of failing to warn about harm from cigarettes, cases that led to multibillion-dollar settlements.
That’s because their profitability perpetuates animation’s dismissive status as suited only for families or kids.
From Los Angeles Times
It suggests something more uncomfortable: that how protests are conducted determines whether they clarify and ameliorate injustice or obscure and perpetuate it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
