- present tense form of maintain (3rd person singular).
maintains
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Even now, he maintains the fitness regime he had during his time at the 49ers, just in case an unlikely opportunity to resume his NFL career arises.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Maybank maintains a buy rating on the stock and its target price of 1.09 Singapore dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The resultant volatility has led analysts to attach a much higher equity risk premium to Korean stocks and Moe maintains this explains roughly half of the Kospi’s 40% drop.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Dan Mackta, managing director at Qobuz, an online music platform that maintains a strict human-first approach to curation, agrees the technology "is never going to want to throw a curve ball at you".
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The Soviet Union maintains an active program of unmanned planetary exploration.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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