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

Third, the site includes a glossary that describes an array of scams that fraudsters are perpetrating in the crypto market.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023

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

Without undue flattery to Master Trafford, we may conclusively state that we deem his poem a great deal better than most of the vers libre effusions which so many of his elders are perpetrating nowadays!

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)