verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
perpetuate a myth (= make it continue )
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Let’s stop perpetuating this myth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
myth
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Let's set the record straight and stop perpetuating this myth .
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To say that wine-speak is an obfuscation is at best perpetuating one of many myths about wine.
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Without statistics to prove the theories daft, the opportunity remains to rely on the powers of suggestion to perpetuate the myth .
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If he includes other people's slivers, he may well perpetuate damaging myths about that person.
system
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The biggest danger of Mr MacGregor's decision is that he perpetuates a system that fails to reward good classroom teaching.
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All of our other efforts may come to little if we perpetuate a social system that undercuts those efforts.
■ VERB
help
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We in the news media help to perpetuate the erroneous cliche.
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He helped perpetuate it when he and his brothers led a gang in Golden Hill in the 1970s and 1980s.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His view is that the welfare system helps to perpetuate failure and poverty.
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The proposed law will perpetuate existing economic and class inequalities.
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This new book perpetuates all the old myths about the Kennedy assassination.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But despite the well-meaning ring of colorblind ideals, you can not demand sameness of language while perpetuating segregated education.
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Public aid to the needy and even public sanitation tended to perpetuate the more vulnerable members of the race.
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She carried with her the values of the eastern seaboard, sought to perpetuate them, and succeeded.
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She was launched in 1965 to replace the Vincent and named Vigilant to perpetuate the traditional name.
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The myth of a woman taking the blame to protect the male foible should not be perpetuated.
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They gave such lyrical names to almost every place they seized, thus perpetuating their memory for ever.
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This is perpetuated in modern weaning during the oral stage and finds an equivalent in manic-depressive and paranoid-schizophrenic disorders.
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We in the news media help to perpetuate the erroneous cliche.