perpetuate

Example Sentences

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“What they have sought to do is perpetuate his time in jail,” said his sister, Ignell Marín, sitting in the living room of her Caracas apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

AI applications pose unaddressed privacy risks and perpetuate healthcare bias when patients upload medical data to chatbots, potentially exposing personal information to insurance decisions while reflecting cultural disparities embedded in training data.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 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

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