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perpetrate

[pur-pi-treyt] / ˈpɜr pɪˌtreɪt /


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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

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.’

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025

Cryptocurrency is being used to perpetrate crimes that affect all Americans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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

“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

Indeed, it is a modern trope: the loving family man who perpetrates acts of cruelty because he is just following orders. 

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017

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

Its practice perpetrates too outrageous a violation of the dignity of human beings to be countenanced under any pretext.

From The Promise of World Peace by Universal House of Justice

Press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders, which had a representative in court, wrote on social media that the trial "revives hope that justice will finally be served for a crime perpetrated nearly nine years ago".

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 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

From the United States: “The entire world sat back aghast. Nothing like the theft of the Mona Lisa had ever been perpetrated before in the world’s history.”

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

In those early days of television, it became the biggest show in the country, and certain people hovering around those who were perpetrating these witch hunts had a lingering, profound effect on the nation’s future.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

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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