Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Think up
Think up verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
Both terms in one sentence
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Brienne, being a very staunch Action Girl, refuses the idea, and later Jaime is able to think up an idea that will keep the bandits from raping her at all...though it's a near miss.
Source: Happy Place -
The Relativists think up a number of poetic descriptions of what they do all day to keep the engines going, but in the end they admit that even they aren't really sure how they're doing it.
Source: Black Box -
Spanner in the Works: Hallwad pulling a Leeroy Jenkins in the heat of the moment, ruining The Plan he made with Lu, when he sees two Dark Ones torturing his sister, then running off to keep them away from her, leaving Lu behind, forcing her to think up a new plan from scratch.
Source: Literature / Murderess
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