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• It is as though the immensity were a fountain that continually, self-replenishingly fructifies, perpetuating itself.2010, Samuel Whittemore Fowler, “God’s Glory in the New Jerusalem”, in Meditations on the Glory of God, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 304. From the entry replenishingly
• Our presence was grounded in a crime, namely colonial conquest, perpetuated by apartheid.2009, J. M. Coetzee, “Martin”, in Summertime, New York: Viking, page 209. From the entry illegitimate
• And I think this is CENTRAL to AFCdom getting perpetuated in our society.2001 July 1, Final D, “Failure Report”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet). From the entry AFCdom
• And I retype that as 'but now' for I don't wish to perpetuate every misfingering.2000, John Christopher Jones, The Internet and Everyone, page 123. From the entry misfinger
• What is more, parents and teachers perpetuate that pseudolife onto their children.1986, William Henry Schubert, Curriculum: Perspective, Paradigm, and Possibility, page 358. From the entry pseudolife
• When Chicanos think about us at all, they perpetuate the stereotypes.1980, [Juan D.] Bruce-Novoa, “Bernice Zamora”, in Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview, Austin, Tex.; London: University of Texas Press…. From the entry sultry
• Only in this way can the Jew maintain and perpetuate the Jewish personality.1928 February, Solomon Goldman, “A Rabbi Takes Stock”, in The Menorah Journal, volume XIV, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Intercollegiate…. From the entry folkway
• Is he going to perpetuate this cheatery, and cheat the workers again?1909, Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates: Senate and House of Representatives, page 739. From the entry cheatery
• And with the Reylos, rose the Anti-Reylos who argued that the ship was indicative of racism and perpetuated abusive relationship tropes.2020, Victoria Song, "How Fandom Destroyed and Protected Me", Gizmodo Australia, 3 February 2021. From the entry Reylo
• And they worried that it perpetuated fear within immigrant communities of ICE’s aggressive tactics to deport those who are undocumented.2018 May 22, Liz Robbins, Maya Salam, “‘I Am Not Racist’: Lawyer Issues Apology One Week After Rant”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry reinforce
• The animal rights group Peta says that many common phrases in the English language perpetuate violence toward animals.2018 December 6, Jessica Brown, “Thanks for the vegan idioms, Peta, but there are bigger fish to fry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry PETA
• But Comic Relief’s biennial guilt trip perpetuates these stereotypes and fails to move the debate on in a constructive way.2017 March 24, David Lammy, “Africa deserves better from Comic Relief”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry guilt trip
• In their daily practices, journalists often perpetuated ageing and increasingly anachronistic ideologies, but they were rarely, in fact, dominated by them.2013, Brian Moeran, Asian Media Productions, page 104. From the entry anachronistic
• Over time, primogeniture perpetuated and built comparatively larger estates.2010, Gary Walton, History of the American Economy, 11e, South-Western, Cengage Learning, page 33. From the entry multigeniture
• Yet, the weight of evidence is that consumers will under-attend to these considerations, perpetuating a positive assessment bias.2007, Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport, Experimental Business Research, →ISBN. From the entry under-attend
• By perpetuating Black Grrrl exhaustion and broken heartedness.2002, Tony Medina, Samiya A. Bashir, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Art & Literature. From the entry grrrl
• This perpetuated the notion that he was infallible.1999, Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy!, Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, →OL, page 118. From the entry east
• Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.1997, Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997. From the entry undead
• The winners each year are public officials who have "perpetuated language that is grossly unfactual, deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing or self-contradictory."1982 December 18, Fernando Chang Muy, quoting National Council of Teachers of English, “A Lesson on Gay Students At Teachers' Convention”…. From the entry unfactual
• This practice has been discouraged by the Communists because it perpetuates "feudal-capitalist consciousness," the worship of wealth and money.1980, B. Michael Frolic, “Notes [Notes to Pages 50–65]”, in Mao’s People: Sixteen Portraits of Life in Revolutionary China, Cambridge…. From the entry hongbao
• "Why should you not take the chance of perpetuating your own name?" said Summerlee, with his usual touch of acidity.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry acidity
• A new Halloween costume from Target inspired by a popular reusable cup perpetuates the zeitgeistification of a holiday that once belonged almost entirely to children.2024 August 30, Gina Cherelus, “A Stanley Tumbler You Can Wear?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry zeitgeistification
• Hypnosis, contrary to perceptions perpetuated by the media, is not some highly guarded secret-squirrel procedure that loses its efficacy once the "truth" is exposed.2012, David B. Reid, Hypnosis for Behavioral Health: A Guide to Expanding Your Professional Practice, Springer, page 196. From the entry secret squirrel
• Teaching and learning methods were therefore forced to perpetuate transmissionism and traditional assessment approaches, given that attention to the individual was completely out of question.2010, Valerie Pellatt, Kate Griffiths, Shao-Chuan Wu, Teaching and Testing Interpreting and Translating, page 156. From the entry transmissionism
• In sum malnutrition, infectious disease, and cognitive impairment constitute a syndemic that is rooted in and perpetuates suboptimal social, political, and economic conditions.2009, Elaine Marie Bennett, Understanding Childhood Malnutrition in a Maya Village in Guatemala, page 11. From the entry syndemic
• A general autarky in culture simply will not work: the hope of perpetuating the culture of any country lies in communication with others.1943, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Social Function of Poetry”, in On Poetry and Poets, New York, N.Y.: The Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus…. From the entry autarky
• He still feeds fools on flap-doodle, and many of them have large and flourishing families, who will perpetuate the breed to the remotest generation.1913, Augustus Samuel Harris, The Codling Math Manual, page 39. From the entry flap-doodle
• Films perpetuate completely discredited historical theories about events (director Oliver Stone based his film JFK on a discredited report on the Kennedy assassination; see Section 13.6).2024, Robert C. Williams, The Historian's Toolbox. From the entry discredited
• But it does make a cultural difference - and you need pioneers like Robin who recognise the benefit of doing that rather than perpetuating the same-old-same-old.2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 42. From the entry same old same old
• The Israeli government has accused the BBC of perpetuating a “modern blood libel” in its reporting of the catastrophic explosion at al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza.2023 October 19, Daniel Boffey, “Israel accuses BBC of ‘modern blood libel’ over reporting of hospital strike”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry blood libel
• Here, I take up the notion of childhood innocence to examine how, in the US context, it regulates race relations by producing a particular "childhood" that perpetuates White supremacy.2019 February 1, J. C. Garden, “Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice”, in Childhood, volume 26, number 1…. From the entry take up
• If the highly visible mockery of teenagers leads to a serious examination of the practices and institutions that perpetuate racism, perhaps it will be worth it.2012 April 11, L. V. Anderson, “Talking to Teens Who Tweeted Racist Things About The Hunger Games”, in Slate, archived from the original…. From the entry drive-by
• They had perpetuated a dubiously holy union of Church and State that had refused for centuries to hear the cry of the poor and the oppressed.1993, William J. Leonard, The Letter Carrier, page 218. From the entry dubiously
• The Purusa Sukta was contrived by the brahmins at a much later period of time to perpetuate the deranking of the sudra tribe of the ksatriya varna.1993 -, P. K. Mohapatra, Religion and social change, page 79. From the entry derank
• Let us suppose that, struck like Herostratos with the idea of perpetuating his name by some strange extravagance, he should decide to distribute his treasure equally amongst his countrymen.1919, Francis Sullivan, “Other Things We Forgot”, in The Will of the People, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Ray Publishing Co., page 56. From the entry Herostratos
• When it seemed later that the cause of freedom would eventually triumph the proslavery element undertook to perpetuate slavery through a system of indentured servant labor.1918, Carter G. Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration. From the entry proslavery
• SOPHIE’s ascension beyond genre was incredibly impactful on hyperpop, and the musician’s impact on the expansion of music collectively is perpetuated through collaborations with a wide variety of modern musicians.2021 February 7, Jocelyn Brossia, “Remembering SOPHIE: The Transformational Pioneer of Hyperpop”, in The University of California, San…. From the entry hyperpop

Meaning of perpetuate

1. verb To make (something) perpetual; to make (something) continue for an indefinite time; also, to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion.
2. verb To record (the testimony of a witness) which may be lost before a matter comes to trial.
3. verb To prolong the existence of (something) by repetition; to reinforce.

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How do you use perpetuate in a sentence?

Perpetuate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “It is as though the immensity were a fountain that continually, self-replenishingly fructifies, perpetuating itself.”

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“By perpetuating Black Grrrl exhaustion and broken heartedness.”

What does perpetuate mean?

Perpetuate means to make (something) perpetual; to make (something) continue for an indefinite time; also, to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion.