perpetuate

Example Sentences

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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

Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson rejected that plan, saying it would perpetuate the whales' exploitation.

From Barron's • 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