Maintain
Read
Read verb - To go over and mentally take in the content of.
Both words in one sentence
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Both continually press their sons into the drug game (read: mortal danger) to maintain their own lifestyles.
Source: Series / The Wire -
Many of the log documents you read through are from the perspective of the Mugungwa's government, who are corrupt, ruthlessly suppressing dissent to maintain the status quo on the ship.
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Medium Awareness: The characters in novels act as if they are actors in a film, most of them only maintain character when the book is being read and the camera is on them, so to speak.
Source: Literature / Thursday Next
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