perpetuate
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He has advocated for removing homeless people from the streets, including with involuntary, temporary psychiatric holds, and said the city should “not perpetuate and indulge their addiction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
AI images perpetuate "misinformation", for example that people with albinism have red eyes, she said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
AI applications pose unaddressed privacy risks and perpetuate healthcare bias when patients upload medical data to chatbots, potentially exposing personal information to insurance decisions while reflecting cultural disparities embedded in training data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Springsteen takes up the story and adds a moment where a man seeking what he believes is retribution against his friends decides to take another path instead and not perpetuate the cycle of violence.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2026
It was the first step outward to the universe—beyond the universe—because in it and with it we merged to recreate and perpetuate the human spirit.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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"If you don't address injustices, historic or otherwise, that in itself creates and perpetuates division," he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Advocates and researchers say this practice perpetuates negative stereotypes and harms the lives and business of real people.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
“It perpetuates the problem. It creates a false equality, by eliminating any opportunity to excel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
“I do love being at home because a lot of times that’s what perpetuates it, the home crowd, the energy,” said Roberts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
It perpetuates the myth that the primary function of the system is to keep our streets safe and our homes secure by rooting out dangerous criminals and punishing them.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Being adopted by a white family, only to be shunned by the Native community, perpetuated his lifelong feeling of being an outsider.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
There is a bizarre universe built around the prestige and untouchability of the court that is first and foremost perpetuated by the people on the court.
From Slate ● May 13, 2026
The Church Committee stopped short of concluding that Cointelpro deliberately perpetuated extremism, but its report made clear that blurring the line between monitoring and participation might have encouraged informants to keep the activity going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
This dark attitudes perpetuated on Whatever and its red-pill ilk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, exacerbating the male loneliness crisis.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
I wanted to continue to be a beacon of light for the Muslim community, challenging the negative stereotypes being perpetuated in the media.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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"Platforms and products disproportionately fail us in basic safety, data privacy, transparency, and accuracy -- including perpetuating factually incorrect information about our lives."
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The U.S. has also hit some domestic-security agencies, including the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, the powerful group responsible for defending and perpetuating the regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
People also need to be more willing to discuss race and have "hard conversations" with those perpetuating "deeply problematic" rhetoric as people do not fear any social repercussions, Strong added.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
At the risk of perpetuating a silly cliche, it’s not uncommon to hear people in Los Angeles refer to their psychics or mediums as casually as they refer to their therapists or masseuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
So I decided to stay at Wilson and devote my energy to teaching literature, rather than perpetuating petty rivalries.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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