Maintain and Question

Maintain

Maintain verb - To keep in good condition.

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Question and maintain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Question" instead a verb "Maintain".

Question verb - To demand proof of the truth or rightness of.

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Maintain and question are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Maintain" instead a verb "Question".

loyalty	maintain loyalty	question loyalty
friendship	maintain friendship	question friendship
sense	maintain sense	question sense
power	maintain power	question power
Other words: life, state, integrity, relationship, presence, appearance, system, identity, authority, sanity, existence, lifestyle.

It also raises the question of how the Wardens would maintain a presence (which is strong, even a decade past the Blight) as an organization if the initiation rites killed off so many recruits.

Source: Franchise / Dragon Age
Also helps to maintain the status quo by ensuring the main characters never question their own morality too closely.

Source: Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
When a thirteen year-old girl discovers that two workers have become sick with a possible pandemic, the factory owner contemplates killing her to maintain the secret after asking this question.

Source: Have You Told Anyone Else?

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