Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Starts
Both words in one sentence
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Instead, the game is time-based; the player starts off with 50 "Time Units" (seconds), and can keep playing so long as they have time remaining.
Source: Pinball / James Bond 007 -
Each country who participates starts with 12 points already instead of 0 in the voting, just to keep the kids happy.
Source: Series / Eurovision Song Contest - Once Kouta, the series protagonist, starts unknowingly hindering his plans to keep everyone he cares about safe, he slowly starts to lose it and the situation gets even worse when his friends find out the truth and side with Kouta instead of him.
Source: Slowly Slipping Into Evil
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