- present participle of maintain.
maintaining
Example Sentences
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“Our focus is on maintaining, to the maximum extent possible, stability at the schools. We have been through challenging times before... and we made it through. We can do it again.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
His plan is to find work maintaining chip-building equipment, as semiconductors are essential to the rise of AI, Webb explained.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Its general secretary Pepe Di'Iasio says schools are already trying to balance the cost to parents with maintaining a sense of identity.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
In this way, the researchers were able to address a difficult tradeoff between achieving a highly ordered atomic structure and maintaining an even distribution of very small catalyst particles.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The more I listened, the more Schiem’s accent faded into the back of my awareness and I didn’t need to concentrate so much on maintaining my own.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
