What is "perpetuates"

Usage examples of "perpetuates".

Like Bisson, he perpetuates a great tradition of American regionalist and comic writing.

During one of the most glorious years of my life, in the period which is marked for me by the erection of the Pantheon, I had you elected, out of friendship for your family, to the sacred college of the Arval Brethren, over which the emperor presides, and which devoutly perpetuates our ancient Roman religious customs.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

Anything short of that, no matter what the motives, perpetuates the fracture.

And he perpetuates erroneous information such as Rowling living in an unheated apartment while writing the first book (in the aforementioned Newsworld interview, Rowling makes a point of debunking the mistaken mythology built up by the press of which the unheated apartment is a prime example).