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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maintain.

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Examples

  • A spokesman for the label maintains that the company has no beef with Snoop.

    The Doggfather: From Bitten To Barking 2008

  • The title maintains the balance between great story-telling and gameplay, keeping every mission fresh, fun and challenging.

    IGN Wii 2009

  • The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • This latest report illuminates our nation's accelerating decay in the areas of basic scientific research and science education, two key engines of the very innovation that the report maintains is a primary driver of our economic future.

    James M. Gentile: Storm Warnings for America's Competitiveness James M. Gentile 2010

  • And most of all, there is the sympathetic distance Small the grown-up cartoonist maintains from the angry, bewildered child he was.

    10 « September « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2009

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