maintain
Usage
Example Sentences
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The post office would maintain its own list of people “who are enrolled with the USPS, pursuant to a process specified in the rulemaking.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
But many of Europe's governments are indebted, cash-strapped and faced with numerous, competing priorities - such as how to maintain welfare and boost defence spending to the levels promised to US President Donald Trump.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
“If anything, we need additional funding to cover rising costs, not fewer, to maintain our current momentum,” the agency said Friday.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
It was closed in 1963 after officials determined it was too costly to maintain.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
He’d get me to walk back there, and then he’d say something stupid, and I’d lose whatever cool I was managing to maintain.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
