Kept and Protested

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Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.

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Protested and kept are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Protested" instead a verb "Kept".

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Kept and protested are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Kept" instead a verb "Protested".

When Greg Howard handed off illustrating the American Sally Forth comic to Craig Macintosh (Howard kept writing for a while), readers protested that the new artist made the characters too thin.

Source: Off Model / Newspaper Comics
The original's developer protested that all Codemasters had won from their legal falling-out years before was the name, whereas the developer had kept both the engine (and implicitly gameplay-style rights) and the exclusive right to develop sequels to the original.

Source: In Name Only / Video Games

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