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What does perpetuate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word perpetuate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make perpetual; to preserve from extinction or oblivion.
  2. (transitive) To prolong the existence of.
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Critics will say NGOs aren't simply gallantly stepping into the breach, rather they actually seek to perpetuate their power in crises like this.
It appears that in utero exposure to nicotine may help to perpetuate a cycle across generations that links addiction and behavioral problems.
These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism.
Lad culture has done nothing more than perpetuate petty hatred between the sexes.
Unlike most poets, O'Hara did not unfailingly preserve or seek to perpetuate the products of his encounter with the muse.
The law writes solipsistically, talking only to and for himself, so as to perpetuate his own image, his self-definition, his existence.

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