perpetrate
verb (used with object)
to commit.
are perpetrating
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present progressiveof perpetrate.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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While Marissa and Peter pivot between rage and not-quite-mourning, and other characters are perpetrating cooked-up complications to the story, Alcaras conducts an investigation that is so commonsensical it defies the rules of crime fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
As he campaigns, Mr. Walker has cast himself as a “champion for mental health,” and hits back at critics by saying they are perpetrating a stigma.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
For the psychopaths at the top who are perpetrating these things, it is not an unconscious psychological process.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2021
She’s also writing a book about her time with the Guilty Remnant, detailing all of their wrongdoings, hoping to shine a light on the sins she believes they are perpetrating against the innocent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2015
To suppress the journals is to confess your fear of them; to avoid the light is to excite our suspicion concerning the deeds you are perpetrating in the darkness.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton
