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perpetrate

verb as in be responsible for

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In a statement, the embassy said: "That such an act of violence should be perpetrated on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, in a place of prayer and community, is abhorrent and deeply distressing."

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"Defendants who perpetrate violations of the Mann Act involving such violence and fear regularly face significant penalties," prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo.

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They described his body as "riddled" with bullets in a post on X, calling it a "state crime, perpetrated under the orders of Daniel Noboa."

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The president also said that climate change was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.”

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According to Findley's indictment, when the case made national headlines, she falsely claimed to Ms Keough's attorneys that a Nigerian identity thief had perpetrated the scheme.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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