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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

In a letter to lawmakers, the group said violence is “outside the bounds of legitimate political discourse regardless of who perpetrates it.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

“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

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

But it perpetrates a gross falsification of history.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011

Not one in a thousand probably perpetrates any intentional damage to fish, fowl, or flowers.

From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

The pandemic-era posts from El-Sayed did not celebrate the tragedy or the terrorists who perpetrated the attacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Women's Aid says there are many misconceptions about domestic abuse, external, including that it is only perpetrated by "bad people" rather than being a reflection of sexism in wider society.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The article leaves room for debate about whether Platner actually perpetrated the worst offenses, which he denies, and whether those offenses should be disqualifying for a Senate candidate.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 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

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

Israel has only executed two people in its history - one of them the infamous Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, who played an important role in perpetrating the Holocaust.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

“Liu used Theta Labs as his personal trading vehicle, perpetrating fraud, self-dealing, and market manipulation,” said Mark Mermelstein, Kowal’s attorney, in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025

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

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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