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What does perpetuate mean?

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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.
Lad culture has done nothing more than perpetuate petty hatred between the sexes.
The simple graphic, though it may perpetuate the hopes and expectations of unemployed roughnecks and roustabouts, masks a more complex story.
These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism.
They continue to perpetuate the myth that he's mistrusted by the Republican base in order to help him triangulate against Bush.
They perpetuate the lies and the fairytales that they have been told since childhood lackadaisically.

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