perpetuate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with perpetuate, each labelled with its topic.

• Avoiding the lift perpetuates the fear rather than easing it, because the person never learns the doors reliably open.

  Psychology

• Cheap credit perpetuated the boom for another three years, long after the underlying orders had quietly stopped growing.

  Economics

• Every new library copied the old function's name, perpetuating a typo that has now survived thirty years of rewrites.

  Technology

• Each side's television ads perpetuate the feud, reminding voters of insults from campaigns that ended twenty years ago.

  Politics

• Textbooks perpetuated the wrong number of chromosomes for thirty years, each edition copying the count from the last.

  Science

• The annual Christmas game perpetuates the rivalry, giving each new roster a reason to dislike a city it has never visited.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

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