- present tense form of maintain (3rd person singular).
maintains
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Even now, he maintains the fitness regime he had during his time at the 49ers, just in case an unlikely opportunity to resume his NFL career arises.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Holmes, meanwhile, maintains that money has never been her primary motivation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Dan Mackta, managing director at Qobuz, an online music platform that maintains a strict human-first approach to curation, agrees the technology "is never going to want to throw a curve ball at you".
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Citi maintains its buy call on Tencent and deems the recent share-price weakness to be a good buying opportunity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“I think they all could in the Middle Ages. There’s only one that still maintains the right to do that.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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