perpetrates

verb

present tense third-person singular of perpetrate
as in performs
to carry through (as a process) to completion the anonymity of the Web allows pranksters to perpetrate their hoaxes with impunity

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Recent Examples of perpetrates Americans should always condemn it—no matter who perpetrates it. — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetrates
  1. performs
  2. accomplishes
  3. fulfills
  4. executes
  5. achieves
  6. does
  7. makes
  8. implements
Verb
  • However, these uses remain future possibilities, and the team plans to test how the material performs in device-relevant forms.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Ogbonnaya, who performs under his first name, will be on the bill; so will No-Fi RPM, a live-mixing series that Curran and Farlee run with collaborators Estevan Medina, Dillon Kelley and Patrick Mitchell.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of performs
Verb
  • Donating, as many do, to check a box or as a reputation-building exercise accomplishes very little.
    — James Chen, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Such a commission would become another bureaucracy that accomplishes little beyond self-sustenance.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of accomplishes
Verb
  • One of their latest launches, the Biodance Eye Patches in Vita Niacinamide, fulfills that mission by bringing the brand’s hydrogel technology into a format that’s truly optimized for the delicate eye area.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Petite and portable, the South Seas Rattan Side Cart fulfills the desire for a bedside table that’s slightly out of the ordinary.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 13 July 2026
Definition of fulfills
Verb
  • However, whoever executes customer interactions is still representing the face of the company.
    — Guy Yehiav, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Every time the user opens an OWA tab in the browser, the normal OWA sync process automatically executes OWAReaper.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2026
Definition of executes
Verb
  • In testing, the electrolyzer achieves industrially relevant reaction rates.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Unfortunately, the simplicity this achieves within that vendor’s own ecosystem has also produced incompatible cross-vendor comparisons (see the graphic below as an example).
    — Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of achieves
Verb
  • But the arrest does little to change the fact that her brother is still gone.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Those workers understand what a white-collar reader mostly does not, which is that the moment your knowledge leaves your hands is the moment your leverage leaves with it.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of does
Verb
  • There is nothing, no drama, no insight, not even a joke other than the one NeNe makes about Porsha swimming in the lady pond.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
  • By putting fashion, food, art and hospitality into the same natural flow, Fontainebleau makes that customer’s time work considerably harder.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of makes
Verb
  • Advocacy groups are sounding alarms over widespread issues in federal student loan programs as the Education Department implements major reforms.
    — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Much now depends on how the administration defines domestic manufacturing and implements the policy.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 22 July 2026
Definition of implements

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