maintain
Usage
Example Sentences
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Under the Constitution and federal law, states are responsible for running elections and maintaining lists of voters, including the addition of new ones and the removal of those who have become ineligible.
They found that the brain's inability to maintain normal levels of a critical cellular energy molecule called NAD+ plays a major role in driving Alzheimer's.
From Science Daily
It picks the state’s election director and members of county election boards, which maintain voter registration lists and operate voting sites.
From Salon
It’s both a relic and a rare adaptation that truly maintains the spirit of Dickens’ classic, something that gives the viewer as much faith in the state of Christmas stories as it does human integrity.
From Salon
“It will be quite a few months. Not everything can be maintained.”
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