perpetrate
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Amodei’s main concern, he wrote in the letter, was the risk of authoritarian governments catching up with the U.S. in AI “to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
"This case was always about holding to account racism and holding to account those who perpetrate racism," she added.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
On Friday, media regulator Roskomnadzor announced it was considering fully banning WhatsApp, accusing it of being a vessel to perpetrate "crime".
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
“The sportsbooks themselves are victims in this case. They themselves did not perpetrate anything unlawful,” said Joseph Nocella Jr., the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
What was interesting about this little insight was that I could see the army had a point, but it still seemed like a sneaky trick to perpetrate on all those simple country folk.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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In a letter to lawmakers, the group said violence is “outside the bounds of legitimate political discourse regardless of who perpetrates it.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
And Hruska, bless his heart, leans into the job with an earnestness that belies the act of deceitfulness he perpetrates with each press of the touch screen.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2020
“When someone perpetrates wrongdoing, it is the fault of that person or those persons who did that,” she said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
Mr. Reeves said he was not particularly a fan of biographical drama or the historical fiction it perpetrates.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2011
For, not content with colt and swine, He must produce domestic kine— To heap the brimming measure full He perpetrates an Irish Bull!
From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson
Due to the gravity of the offenses, the location where they were perpetrated, and the fact that he was already out on two separate bonds, Poland initially set his new bond at $1.25 million.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Months later, he filed a lawsuit alleging defamation and said CNN had perpetrated “a deliberate scheme to defraud its own audience.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
He had revered the British Museum since he was a teenager and was incensed by the idea that a theft was continuing and that it was being perpetrated by a curator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
But George told AFP it is "unlikely" the gym shooting was perpetrated by Iranian government agents.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Danglers show up in newspapers and bestsellers, on the network news and highway billboards, and they can be endlessly entertaining—as long as they’re perpetrated by someone else.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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The state Attorney General’s office in Florida, where RAD is based, is separately investigating the firm for perpetrating what it described as an apparent “Ponzi scheme,” citing complaints from investors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Israel has only executed two people in its history - one of them the infamous Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, who played an important role in perpetrating the Holocaust.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
While Marissa and Peter pivot between rage and not-quite-mourning, and other characters are perpetrating cooked-up complications to the story, Alcaras conducts an investigation that is so commonsensical it defies the rules of crime fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
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.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
These detectives admitted to hiding in closets and under beds, posing as ANC members, perpetrating virtually any deception that would enable them to get information about our organization.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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