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Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer described the new rules as “modest measures that will help prevent and restrain potential gross abuses of the mails to perpetrate a fraud on the Nation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Such entrepreneurial packaging serves as a Trojan horse for scammers wanting to set up shop without drawing unwanted attention – and allows them to perpetrate their fraud more effectively.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

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

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

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

No, he avoids all human sight, he perpetrates his deed in secrecy, and all that we can do is to seek to penetrate the mystery by such means as are at our disposal.’

From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

Women's Aid says there are many misconceptions about domestic abuse, external, including that it is only perpetrated by "bad people" rather than being a reflection of sexism in wider society.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

The article leaves room for debate about whether Platner actually perpetrated the worst offenses, which he denies, and whether those offenses should be disqualifying for a Senate candidate.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

He slowly became obsessed with the idea that high fees were a moral wrong perpetrated on American investors by an ethically bankrupt Wall Street fund-management industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

The US government last year accused Huione Group, which owned several companies offering e-commerce, payment and cryptocurrency exchange services, including Huione Pay, of laundering funds for transnational criminal groups perpetrating scams from Southeast Asia.

From Barron's ● May 6, 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