- present participle of perpetuate.
perpetuating
Example Sentences
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Had anyone involved in perpetuating it stopped to consider that it wasn’t harmless?
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
At the risk of perpetuating a silly cliche, it’s not uncommon to hear people in Los Angeles refer to their psychics or mediums as casually as they refer to their therapists or masseuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
His grandson's enrolment into the army - announced in July - is seen as perpetuating the family dynasty.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
Synchronous to the debates around heroic police characters in TV and movies that “Bad Boys” contributes to perpetuating are critiques concerning the commodification of Black pain.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2022
The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania, Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia, Death-worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and in-equality.
From "1984" by George Orwell
