maintain
Usage
Example Sentences
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Consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 3.0% in November from a year earlier, maintaining the pace recorded in October, according to government data released on Friday.
“I did not know, until Gary passed away, that we were overextended and that Gary needed money to repay debts and maintain his lifestyle.”
Interest rates are now at generational highs, and the cost of maintaining revolving balances is becoming increasingly burdensome.
From Barron's
But officials also put greater pressure on banks to maintain larger reserve balances, via regulation and the reward of interest payments on reserve balances.
He maintained during his trial that his two crossbows were "purely for sport" and that two pistols were the kind "commonly used in fairgrounds".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
