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perpetrate

verb as in be responsible for

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He said that Mr Lynch had "not only perpetrated an enormous fraud, but lied about it at every stage".

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Members of the groups are also suspected to be behind attacks perpetrated earlier this year on Marks & Spencer and other U.K. retailers, including posh department store Harrods.

He sees it as just fine for men who are white or rich or otherwise “deserve” it, but criminal if men he perceives as having lower status perpetrate it.

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"The country has witnessed a heinous terror incident, perpetrated by anti-national forces, through a car explosion near the Red Fort", a cabinet statement read, after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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To Michael Burry, the subprime mortgage market looked increasingly like a fraud perpetrated by a handful of subprime bond trading desks.

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