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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of perpetrate.

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Examples

  • If it was a lie the villain perpetrated, why then did he seem surprised she showed up?

    /Filmcast Ep. 28 - Australia (GUESTS: Chris and Jimmy from Scene Unseen) | /Film 2008

  • I also believe the phrase "gay gene" is a straw man argument, or a buzzword perpetrated by the religious right such as the phrases "radical homosexual activist" or "protecting marriage."

    Alvin McEwen: Eleventh researcher complains that the religious right distorted his work 2010

  • Willingness to die for a fraud one has perpetrated is another.

    Darwin's God 2007

  • Even as Stalin perpetrated crimes against humanity in his own country, Conquest explains, writers, thinkers, and artists in the West idealized and lionized him because the ideology he espoused held an intrinsic appeal for them.

    Facing Up to Stalin 2004

  • Even as Stalin perpetrated crimes against humanity in his own country, Conquest explains, writers, thinkers, and artists in the West idealized and lionized him because the ideology he espoused held an intrinsic appeal for them.

    Facing Up to Stalin 2004

  • I also believe the phrase "gay gene" is a straw man argument, or a buzzword perpetrated by the religious right such as the phrases "radical homosexual activist" or "protecting marriage."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • I also believe the phrase "gay gene" is a straw man argument, or a buzzword perpetrated by the religious right such as the phrases "radical homosexual activist" or "protecting marriage."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • I also believe the phrase "gay gene" is a straw man argument, or a buzzword perpetrated by the religious right such as the phrases "radical homosexual activist" or "protecting marriage."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • I also believe the phrase "gay gene" is a straw man argument, or a buzzword perpetrated by the religious right such as the phrases "radical homosexual activist" or "protecting marriage."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • I also believe the phrase "gay gene" is a straw man argument, or a buzzword perpetrated by the religious right such as the phrases "radical homosexual activist" or "protecting marriage."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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