Maintain
Maintain verb - Have and exercise.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Artificial Brilliance: Since almost all of your enemies now wield bayoneted muskets, whenever they have a loaded shot, they will usually maintain distance from you while lining up a shot.
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Eldar Dark Reapers wield their Reaper Launchers like this, and maintain their accuracy by virtue of rigid locking bracing mechanisms in their armor, recoilless munitions, and their psychic abilities.
Source: Chainsaw Grip BFG -
Improbable Weapon User: In order to maintain the Two-Fisted Tales/Franco-Belgian comic aesthetic and anti-violence message of the game, none of the player-characters wield guns or other obviously lethal weapons as standard.
Source: Videogame / Valiant Hearts
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