Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Not have
Both terms in one sentence
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So instead we get them as batteries, which is a major liberty with the laws of physics, as well as a huge headscratcher - why not keep the humans sedated, and not have to waste power on the Matrix?
Source: Human Resources -
Note that she does not have Super Reflexes, which is used to keep a lid on her Story-Breaker Power.
Source: Series / No Ordinary Family - The World War One poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrae echoes this sentiment, with the ghosts of the fallen telling the living to keep fighting so they will not have died in vain.
Source: Sunk Cost Fallacy
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