maintain
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It means being able to maintain the weight she has lost at a fraction of the cost, she said, while keeping diabetes and heart disease at bay.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Those who are found liable can still be punished accordingly, and those who settle can still maintain their innocence.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
Even after the immediate crisis has passed, sellers with market power tend to maintain these new, higher prices.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
The Genius Act provides regulators with a robust arsenal of tools to ensure that stablecoins maintain their one-to-one peg.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
For Morgan, the principal mystery of organismal biology was not the gene but genesis: How did “units of heredity” enable the formation of animals and maintain the functions of organs and organisms?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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