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perpetuate

[per-pech-oo-ayt] / pərˈpɛtʃ uˌeɪt /


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What we don't want, he added, was for an "unhealthy version of the race narrative to perpetuate", potentially escalating an already fierce rivalry in AI.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

“We still expect to see warming due to El Niño begin sometime in later summer or fall, which will perpetuate these conditions, and likely expand the warmer-than-normal region further up the coast,” Leising said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

He has advocated for removing homeless people from the streets, including with involuntary, temporary psychiatric holds, and said the city should “not perpetuate and indulge their addiction.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Understanding is more often used to try to alter an outcome than to repeat or perpetuate it.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The back-and-forth fosters confusion but also distrust, she said: "It further perpetuates the myth of like, the sketchy abortion doctor in the back alley."

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

It arguably perpetuates the avian love story that Friends of Big Bear Valley describes in its own posts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026

More often than not, punishing people with addiction and applying a one-size-fits-all approach to care perpetuates a patient’s sense of isolation.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

“It perpetuates the problem. It creates a false equality, by eliminating any opportunity to excel.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

It perpetuates the myth that the primary function of the system is to keep our streets safe and our homes secure by rooting out dangerous criminals and punishing them.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In 2024 then–Surgeon General Vivek Murthy identified one of the main culprits: “A ‘culture of comparison’—often perpetuated online—around milestones, parenting and achievements, ‘has left many families feeling exhausted, burned out, and perpetually behind.’

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Being adopted by a white family, only to be shunned by the Native community, perpetuated his lifelong feeling of being an outsider.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

A well-meaning attempt to mitigate suffering by collective effort instead perpetuated it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

This dark attitudes perpetuated on Whatever and its red-pill ilk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, exacerbating the male loneliness crisis.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025

He was a dark-faced man; his skin, perhaps from sun, was a black red, as though some Norse or perhaps Vandal blood was perpetuated in him.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Had anyone involved in perpetuating it stopped to consider that it wasn’t harmless?

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Volsche says many a cat-dad defender wrote in arguing that they were perpetuating negative stereotypes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The lawsuit accuses Blanche and the DOJ of perpetuating “that disgrace” of failing to investigate or hold Epstein accountable before his death.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

"Platforms and products disproportionately fail us in basic safety, data privacy, transparency, and accuracy -- including perpetuating factually incorrect information about our lives."

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

“Brittani Slocum. First question. The pageant has come under fire for perpetuating an unrealistic image of superthin girls as beautiful, and many people feel this is harmful to girls’ self-esteem.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray


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