Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Speak of
Both terms in one sentence
- Balancing her studies and putting up with her hard-partying pegasus sister is enough to keep Luna up most nights with little or no social life to speak of.
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Hero Factory struggled to keep one up, perhaps in part because it barely had a story to speak of (very much unlike the above).
Source: Animated Adaptation - Justified Trope, everyone who knew both camps all swore upon the river Styx to never speak of it and the Gods tried their hardest to keep them separated.
Source: Uniqueness Decay
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