perpetration
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Those human laws, that annex a punishment to it, do not at all increase it's moral guilt, or superadd any fresh obligation in foro conscientiae to abstain from-43- it's perpetration.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
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