Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Run on
Run on verb - Continue uninterrupted.
Usage example: The disease will run on unchecked
Both terms in one sentence
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Just to really make sure they keep this trope, most of their vehicles run on FLEXX bogies (or trucks).
Source: Xtreme Kool Letterz - This was part of a Hand Wave in the original Vampire: The Masquerade to keep people from tampering with the Malkavians, who more or less run on crazy, mystically speaking.
Source: All Therapists Are Muggles -
During Joss Whedon's run on Runaways, lesbian character Karolina has a long-standing relationship with a shapeshifting alien (twofer!) who appears female entirely to keep her happy.
Source: Discount Lesbians
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Run on and Keep. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/run_on
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Run on or Keep. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/run_on.
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