maintain
verb (used with object)
am maintaining
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present progressiveof maintain (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“I am maintaining the Amazon tradition of not commenting on products or ventures until they are public … But I would say there are some gaps in the content market in Asia,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2020
I am maintaining the humbler thesis that nature is a system.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
All that I am maintaining is, that I am not this comparatively ignorant man.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
Let no one suppose, that in saying this I am maintaining that all proofs are equally difficult, and all propositions equally debatable.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
Some of you are thinking perhaps, without saying so, that I am maintaining a hard paradox.
From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Henry Downton
