as in to commemorate
to give eternal or lasting existence to
we hope to perpetuate this holiday tradition
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Recent Examples of perpetuate
Being adopted by a white family, only to be shunned by the Native community, perpetuated his lifelong feeling of being an outsider.
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Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
In a more pointed, though less public, post to her private Instagram account, SZA specifically called out the producer and Major Lazer member Diplo for his role in perpetuating exploitation via AI.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
And with the Plains already suffering from extreme drought, El Niño perpetuates those conditions.
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Jason Ma,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
And the absence of local training programs perpetuates the cycle.
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Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams,
STAT,
19 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for perpetuate
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
In a more pointed, though less public, post to her private Instagram account, SZA specifically called out the producer and Major Lazer member Diplo for his role in perpetuating exploitation via AI.
—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
And with the Plains already suffering from extreme drought, El Niño perpetuates those conditions.
—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
And the absence of local training programs perpetuates the cycle.
—
Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams,
STAT,
19 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for perpetuate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetuate
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The celebration will include fireworks, military bands, flyovers, tributes to the Armed Services, and a speech by the president that the organization said would commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary and chart a course for America's next chapter.
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The blue-and-orange bins were put out last week by the New York City Department of Sanitation to commemorate the Knicks’ first NBA championship in more than 50 years.
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Moroccan supporters, who had arrived in force, marching toward the stadium amid pounding drums and chants, celebrated their team’s victory and advancement.
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Best Amazon Prime Day Travel Deals Vacation season is in full swing, and Amazon is celebrating with huge Prime Day deals on all sorts of travel essentials.
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The Little House on the Prairie Museum contains a cabin like the home Wilder immortalized.
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Perhaps the cleanest rebuke of noisy nativism would be for England to win, and, if Tuchel can take that final step that eluded Southgate, he’ll be immortalized, too—perhaps in a prestige miniseries of his own, and a more straightforwardly triumphal one at that.
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At the San Diego event, the guide also promoted one restaurant, Kato in Los Angeles, to the two-star list and honored nine new restaurants with one-star awards, including Naides in San Francisco, one of the few Filipino cuisine restaurants in the nation with that distinction.
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Chen and Hu started the Alan Hu Foundation to honor their son who wanted to be a psychiatrist to help others like him.
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“Perpetuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetuate. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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