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maintained

  • past participle
    of maintain.
    maintain
    verb (used with object)
    to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain.
  • past tense form
    of maintain.
    maintain
    verb (used with object)
    to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain.

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Hong maintained that momentum throughout the spring and summer, as several establishment hands dropped out.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Throughout the Spygate process, members of the Southampton board have maintained a stance that they feel the punishment does not fit the offence committed.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Banks have maintained they don’t close accounts for political or religious reasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Taylor Farms used the revision to push back on the idea that its lettuce had been definitively identified as the source; federal officials, though, maintained that the broader epidemiological and traceback evidence still pointed there.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

The officers of the American Chess Foundation maintained that Reshevsky was the better player, and they arranged to have him prove it.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady