- present participle of maintain.
maintaining
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The energy secretary has stressed that affordability is her "overriding objective", as she said reducing bills would be key to maintaining public support for climate action.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
It might help the widow gain clarity about whether those relationships are worth maintaining.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
"Instead, restoration efforts should place greater emphasis on creating and maintaining mosaics of woodland and open habitats - not least through the restoration of natural-living large herbivores," Svenning concludes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Most Jewish Americans don’t keep kosher; even most who avoid pork and shellfish don’t go to the effort of maintaining separate dishes and utensils for meat and dairy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
I had that agenda I’d been assiduously maintaining since freshman year of college, stemming from the neat line of boxes I was meant to check.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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