perpetuate

Example Sentences

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AI images perpetuate "misinformation", for example that people with albinism have red eyes, she said.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Springsteen takes up the story and adds a moment where a man seeking what he believes is retribution against his friends decides to take another path instead and not perpetuate the cycle of violence.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2026

“If this data has been absconded or downloaded, you could perpetuate fraud against every single government system in existence much more easily than at any time in our history.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026

Both books show how enslaved people exerted pressure against slaveholders, militias and the political leaders who sought to perpetuate systems of forced labor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

It was the first step outward to the universe—beyond the universe—because in it and with it we merged to recreate and perpetuate the human spirit.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes