maintain
Usage
Example Sentences
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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.”
Even before the protests, the interim government was under scrutiny as it struggled to maintain law and order and deliver results amid the political turmoil.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
