perpetration
Americannoun
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"What we're looking at is the perpetration of a massive injustice," says Dr Michael Lambert, a leading expert in homes for unmarried mothers.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
To distance herself from that perpetration and the identity she had formed from it, Ensler chose to go by the mononym V. As she explains in her new book, “V is my freedom name.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
It will also recommend how the city will issue a formal apology to the “people of Boston for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their descendants.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
In the series of tweets, the center referred to Walker as “a leader in the field of perpetration prevention research.”
From Washington Times ● May 15, 2022
The season here is monotonously magnificent—and we look inconceivably off across the blue channel, the lovely rim, toward the nearness of the horrors that are in perpetration just beyond....
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James
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