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perpetration

American  
[pur-puh-tray-shuhn] / ˌpɜr pəˈtreɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. the act of perpetrating a crime or other offensive act.


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The two men were charged at a Berlin court with two counts of “joint perpetration of especially serious treason,” prosecutors said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

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

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

"That's why I've always emphasised the need for us to directly address the reasons for perpetration of these offences and the perpetrators themselves."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2021

The result was precisely the same as in the West, except that the consequences were not so overt, and the perpetration could not be so easily distinguished.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus

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