as in performing
to carry through (as a process) to completion
the anonymity of the Web allows pranksters to perpetrate their hoaxes with impunity
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Recent Examples of perpetrating
The camp in western Ethiopia is being used to prepare fighters to join the Rapid Support Forces militia, which is accused of perpetrating a genocide against Sudan’s Black population, according to Reuters.
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Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Feb. 2026
So, for example, a lot of releases are coming out of this traumatizing space where men are perpetrating violence.
—Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2026
The indictment accuses the pair of perpetrating a widespread fraud scheme, including inflating invoices, falsifying financial documents and double- and triple-counting collateral.
—Sasha Richie, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
Sacramento police announced earlier this week the arrest of a man and a woman accused of perpetrating the assault.
—Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Think for yourself, perpetrating violence against a federal officer.
—Esme Murphy, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
Video from the mass shooting showed the two gunmen perpetrating the attack, as well as an unarmed civilian wrestling and briefly disarming one of the gunmen, who would soon rejoin the other gunman and re-arm himself.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025
The suspect, Patrick Joseph White, 30, may have been disgruntled over vaccine side effects before perpetrating the shooting, according to multiple reports.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Feb. 2026
So, for example, a lot of releases are coming out of this traumatizing space where men are perpetrating violence.
—Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2026
The indictment accuses the pair of perpetrating a widespread fraud scheme, including inflating invoices, falsifying financial documents and double- and triple-counting collateral.
—Sasha Richie, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
Sacramento police announced earlier this week the arrest of a man and a woman accused of perpetrating the assault.
—Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Think for yourself, perpetrating violence against a federal officer.
—Esme Murphy, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
Video from the mass shooting showed the two gunmen perpetrating the attack, as well as an unarmed civilian wrestling and briefly disarming one of the gunmen, who would soon rejoin the other gunman and re-arm himself.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025
The suspect, Patrick Joseph White, 30, may have been disgruntled over vaccine side effects before perpetrating the shooting, according to multiple reports.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetrating
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By controlling edge recombination through passivation, these wafers can maintain strong carrier collection and high efficiency, translating their theoretical advantages into practical, high-performing solar cells.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2026
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The Bluewater Kings Band will be performing throughout the reception, with instrumentals during cocktail hour.—
Hannah Kirby,
jsonline.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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OpenAI is now offering agents that are more about automating workflows—logging into applications, executing tasks, and managing tasks without much human hand-holding.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Wednesday’s cuts are the culmination of years of difficult industry-wide headwinds, damaging ownership decisions, leadership mismanagement, and turnover that kept the Post from developing and executing goals.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Rebuilding the defensive line was a must, and landing Osunsanmi, his K-State teammate, Chiddi Obiazor, and Notre Dame defensive lineman Joshua Burnham went a long way in accomplishing that.—
Sam Khan Jr,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Absent a path toward accomplishing dramatic change and making sure that ICE and DHS are conducting themselves like every other law enforcement agency in the country, then Republicans are going to cause another government shutdown.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
1 Feb. 2026
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The cat family is really, very fulfilling to me.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
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Androw, owner of E & D Pizza in Avon and a leader on the national pizza scene is known for using pizza for good causes from hunger to fulfilling the wishes of terminally ill children.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2026
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High-resistivity wafers enter the high-level injection regime more readily than low-resistivity ones, a physical characteristic that underlies their superior intrinsic potential for achieving high fill factors.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2026
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Ramos-Rivera is achieving those dreams as the first student of his age to work a professional dance job, according to Smutek.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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In saliva samples from 628 adults, researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi found that people living with obesity host a distinct oral microbiome, one that differs not just in species, but in what those microbes are actively doing.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Feb. 2026
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Gage’s Robert is also no slouch in the come-on department, gushing over Jack’s appearance and enticing him by wearing women’s lingerie and doing you don’t want to know what else.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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Rather than making a dispassionate case against the idea that the country was founded to enslave Africans, MAGA is taking down plaques commemorating basic facts, such as Washington’s slaveholding.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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This week, a 51-year-old woman was sentenced to federal prison for making far-out and ultimately weightless accusations – that her former spouse had illegally accessed her bank account as an astronaut aboard the International Space Station in the summer of 2019.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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Despite implementing a jail diversion program more than a year ago, people facing minor, quality-of-life offenses make up a growing portion of the jail’s population.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Democratic candidates proposed populist solutions including taxing billionaires, implementing rent control and freezing utility costs to address California’s soaring cost of living.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Perpetrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrating. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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