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perpetrate

verb as in be responsible for

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The three plaintiffs who brought the US case -- two men and one woman, all now American citizens -- alleged that these contracts helped finance violence perpetrated by Sudan against a part of its population.

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Dating back to the second wave of Jim Crow-style racism in the early 1950s, Black celebrities have been critical in efforts to bring awareness to racial injustice and accountability to those perpetrating it.

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Through two years of hard fighting and specious allegations against Israel, there hasn’t been evidence of anything like the field executions Hamas perpetrated in its first week of “quiet.”

Critics accused her government of unjustly jailing her chief rival, passing draconian anti-press freedom laws, and perpetrating a litany of rights abuses including the murder of opposition activists.

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After all, the vast majority of domestic extremist attacks have been perpetrated by individuals professing right-wing ideologies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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