Keeping
Keeping noun - Responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Piedmont sought to retain the sympathies of the Liberals by keeping the constitution, while the remaining governments of Italy had returned to absolutism.
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They retain their unifying trait of Undying Loyalty to Megatron, though, keeping this trope in effect.
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By keeping the forms the same, creators can make it clear that a pudding is the ambassador's dinner and not, say, his wife; by shifting the palette, they retain a sense of otherworldliness.
Source: Palette-Swapped Alien Food
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