- present participle of maintain.
maintaining
Example Sentences
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It is primarily tasked with repairing and fortifying the city’s more than 210,000 streetlamps — a frequent target of copper wire thieves — and maintaining its network of electrical vehicle charging stations.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
"Scotland already has the lowest pupil-teacher ratio and smallest class sizes anywhere in the UK, and ministers are committed to at least maintaining this ratio over the lifetime of this parliament."
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
BofA Securities followed suit Monday, maintaining a Buy rating and raising its price target to $2,100 from $1,550.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Scientists have long recognized that maintaining a healthy weight is an important part of breast cancer prevention.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
If heredity had no means of maintaining variance—of “fixing” the altered trait—then all alterations in characters would eventually vanish into colorless oblivion by virtue of blending.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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