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perpetrate

[pur-pi-trayt] / ˈpɜr pɪˌtreɪt /


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Amodei’s main concern, he wrote in the letter, was the risk of authoritarian governments catching up with the U.S. in AI “to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

On Friday, media regulator Roskomnadzor announced it was considering fully banning WhatsApp, accusing it of being a vessel to perpetrate "crime".

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

“The sportsbooks themselves are victims in this case. They themselves did not perpetrate anything unlawful,” said Joseph Nocella Jr., the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025

Cryptocurrency is being used to perpetrate crimes that affect all Americans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

What was interesting about this little insight was that I could see the army had a point, but it still seemed like a sneaky trick to perpetrate on all those simple country folk.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff

“When someone perpetrates wrongdoing, it is the fault of that person or those persons who did that,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2020

“I find myself in the position of a well-intentioned man. It’s difficult. And it’s always difficult if you’re not part of the community, but part of the community that perpetrates the actual action.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2017

Indeed, it is a modern trope: the loving family man who perpetrates acts of cruelty because he is just following orders. 

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017

Climbing artist and illustrator, Phil Gibson, is also surprisingly dismissive of the project offering, What a pity that Mr Armitage has chosen to carve his scroll across the rocks that he perpetrates to covet.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2012

Louis Napoleon perpetrates the king-joke of the century by solemnly presenting the Russian Czar with a copy of Thomas à Kempis's "Imitation of Christ,"—a book whose great inculcation is to renounce the world!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various

Instead, Campbell had been the victim of deception perpetrated by her co-trustee, Bianka Hellmich, who was disqualified from being a charity trustee for nine years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Due to the gravity of the offenses, the location where they were perpetrated, and the fact that he was already out on two separate bonds, Poland initially set his new bond at $1.25 million.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Months later, he filed a lawsuit alleging defamation and said CNN had perpetrated “a deliberate scheme to defraud its own audience.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

On May 1, Instructure said it had “experienced a cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor. We are actively investigating this incident with the help of outside forensics experts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Danglers show up in newspapers and bestsellers, on the network news and highway billboards, and they can be endlessly entertaining—as long as they’re perpetrated by someone else.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

In those early days of television, it became the biggest show in the country, and certain people hovering around those who were perpetrating these witch hunts had a lingering, profound effect on the nation’s future.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

The US government last year accused Huione Group, which owned several companies offering e-commerce, payment and cryptocurrency exchange services, including Huione Pay, of laundering funds for transnational criminal groups perpetrating scams from Southeast Asia.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

While Marissa and Peter pivot between rage and not-quite-mourning, and other characters are perpetrating cooked-up complications to the story, Alcaras conducts an investigation that is so commonsensical it defies the rules of crime fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

“Plaintiffs bring this suit to stop Defendants from perpetrating their anticompetitive scheme and to recover billions in damages,” according to the lawsuit filed in U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025

These detectives admitted to hiding in closets and under beds, posing as ANC members, perpetrating virtually any deception that would enable them to get information about our organization.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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