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- verb   Third-person singular simple present indicative form of 
maintain . 
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Examples
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A spokesman for the label maintains that the company has no beef with Snoop.
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The title maintains the balance between great story-telling and gameplay, keeping every mission fresh, fun and challenging.
IGN Wii 2009
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The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.
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The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.
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The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.
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The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.
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The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.
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The event demonstrates that the label maintains its own identity, despite a long-standing relationship with EMI, which was highlighted by the appearance lower down the bill of The Little Ones.
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This latest report illuminates our nation's accelerating decay in the areas of basic scientific research and science education, two key engines of the very innovation that the report maintains is a primary driver of our economic future.
James M. Gentile: Storm Warnings for America's Competitiveness James M. Gentile 2010
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And most of all, there is the sympathetic distance Small the grown-up cartoonist maintains from the angry, bewildered child he was.
 
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