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perpetuate

[per-pech-oo-eyt] / pərˈpɛtʃ uˌeɪt /


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He has advocated for removing homeless people from the streets, including with involuntary, temporary psychiatric holds, and said the city should “not perpetuate and indulge their addiction.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

On the flip side, she said the videos also can perpetuate myths that predators such as wolves and mountain lions are more dangerous than they actually are.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2026

“If this data has been absconded or downloaded, you could perpetuate fraud against every single government system in existence much more easily than at any time in our history.”

From MarketWatch Feb. 4, 2026

Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson rejected that plan, saying it would perpetuate the whales' exploitation.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

The latter was clearly an error of past generations, which Francis saw no reason to perpetuate.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Advocates and researchers say this practice perpetuates negative stereotypes and harms the lives and business of real people.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

It arguably perpetuates the avian love story that Friends of Big Bear Valley describes in its own posts.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2026

More often than not, punishing people with addiction and applying a one-size-fits-all approach to care perpetuates a patient’s sense of isolation.

From Slate Dec. 19, 2025

“It perpetuates the problem. It creates a false equality, by eliminating any opportunity to excel.”

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

It perpetuates the myth that the primary function of the system is to keep our streets safe and our homes secure by rooting out dangerous criminals and punishing them.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In 2024 then–Surgeon General Vivek Murthy identified one of the main culprits: “A ‘culture of comparison’—often perpetuated online—around milestones, parenting and achievements, ‘has left many families feeling exhausted, burned out, and perpetually behind.’

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

“At the time,” Nacua posted on Instagram, “I had no idea this act was antisemitic in nature and perpetuated harmful stereotypes against Jewish people.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2025

This dark attitudes perpetuated on Whatever and its red-pill ilk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, exacerbating the male loneliness crisis.

From Salon Nov. 21, 2025

Not only do fears of exclusion affect the well-being of adolescents, but so does the comparative culture perpetuated by social media.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 7, 2025

The error will be perpetuated for decades in books and even a movie.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

"Platforms and products disproportionately fail us in basic safety, data privacy, transparency, and accuracy -- including perpetuating factually incorrect information about our lives."

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

People also need to be more willing to discuss race and have "hard conversations" with those perpetuating "deeply problematic" rhetoric as people do not fear any social repercussions, Strong added.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2026

The cases are using a similar script to past ones accusing pharmaceutical companies of perpetuating the opioid epidemic or tobacco companies of failing to warn about harm from cigarettes, cases that led to multibillion-dollar settlements.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 2026

Although someone perpetuating a romance scam can go after any age group, often older individuals who have built up significant retirement accounts and may be less familiar with AI and deepfake technology are targeted.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 24, 2025

The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania, Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia, Death-worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and in-equality.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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