Choose and Maintain

Choose

Choose verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.

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Maintain and choose are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Maintain" instead a verb "Choose".

Nearby Words: choosy, choosing, choosey, chooser

Maintain verb - To keep in good condition.

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Choose and maintain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Choose" instead a verb "Maintain".

power	choose power	maintain power
life	choose life	maintain life
order	choose order	maintain order
appearance	choose appearance	maintain appearance
Other words: form, level, powers, weapons.

Blatant Lies: The heads of the Church of Yevon know everything about the origins and purpose of Sin, yet they choose to maintain the population in ignorance with a false creed.

Source: Video Game / Final Fantasy X
D'ivers of the Malazan Book of the Fallen are shapeshifters who split into several identical shapes (they can't choose), but maintain a single mind.

Source: Hive Mind / Played Straight
He believed that political repression was not necessary to maintain communism; he believed that his own country and the USSR's satellites would choose communism of their own free will.

Source: Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell

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