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What is the verb for perpetual?

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perpetuate
  1. (transitive) To make perpetual; to preserve from extinction or oblivion.
  2. (transitive) To prolong the existence of.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Both groups continue to perpetuate the old and outworn doctrines of party politics.”
      “They perpetuate the lies and the fairytales that they have been told since childhood lackadaisically.”
      “Lad culture has done nothing more than perpetuate petty hatred between the sexes.”
perpetuated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of perpetuate. To make something be perpetual; (or figuratively) to prolong something.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As students of urban folklore know, legends are perpetuated for reasons other than simple credulity.”
      “The idealism of childhood is further perpetuated by the advertising industry that plays on our nostalgia for a time when everything came easily.”
      “Britain has changed because of the culture of political correctness perpetuated by the government.”
perpetuates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perpetuate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “How long can we sustain the environmental and social degradation that consumer culture perpetuates?”
      “It just perpetuates the stigma that welfare recipients are lazy bludgers who need to be forced into work.”
      “Although some librarians are thought to be among buyers of the model, others claim it perpetuates a fuddy-duddy stereotype.”
perpetuating
  1. present participle of perpetuate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The dancers are succeeded by a second threesome and then a third, all perpetuating the atmosphere of remoteness and nonengagement.”
      “But why risk his reputation as a scientist by perpetuating such a falsehood?”
      “In writing about the history of American foreign policy, one must try to avoid perpetuating distortions and perversions of language.”
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