Example Sentences

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It is a nice idea, to think that life begets life — or that life on Earth works towards a larger purpose of self-perpetuation.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

Not merely a product of a closed system of French cinematic self-celebration and self-perpetuation, “My Golden Days” is more or less its perfect self-representation, its ideal export.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2016

His reflex action toward self-perpetuation following crisis only underscores his lack of humanism and moral courage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The technostructure's chief aim is self-perpetuation through corporate growth.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knows there is no self-perpetuation in the mass of men roving in the river valleys.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard