Maintain
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They stick together until they escape the raid, and maintain a strong relationship afterward.
Source: Fire-Forged Friends - A Magical Roommate quite visibly improved during its first strips, and still manages to maintain its trademark stick / animesque hybrid style.
Source: Art Evolution / Web Comics - Being publicly defeated makes it hard to maintain authority, and most witches are proud enough not to want to stick around people who've seen them lose.
Source: Loser Leaves Town
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Stick and Maintain. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintain/stick
Maintain & Stick. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintain/stick>.
Stick or Maintain. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/maintain/stick.
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