Maintain and Reason

Maintain

Maintain verb - To state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration.

Usage example: she continued to maintain that a sewing machine would end up paying for itself since she could make her own clothes

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Synonyms for Maintain

Antonyms for Maintain

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

Nearby Words: maintained, maintaining, maintainable, maintainability

Reason

Reason verb - To state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration.

Usage example: he tried to reason that no one in their right mind would buy his brother's old video games, but they were put on the online auction anyway

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Synonyms for Reason

Antonyms for Reason

Maintain and reason are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Maintain" instead a verb "Reason".

Nearby Words: reasonable, reasoning, reasoned, reasonably, reasonableness

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

sense	maintain sense	reason sense
power	maintain power	reason power
kind	maintain kind	reason kind
image	maintain image	reason image
Other words: position.

Both words in one sentence

The latter is often used to maintain UST when there is no other reason to keep the two from getting together.

Source: On the Rebound
The latter is specifically designed for superpowered teens who can't maintain a secret identity for whatever reason.

Source: Superhero School
The main reason SPEAR and its predecessors maintain the Masquerade in the Heroes of the Storm fanfic Heroes Of The Desk.

Source: Humans Are Flawed

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