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Wikipedia

  1. Maintaining

    Maintaining is a 2007-2009 comic strip by cartoonist Nate Creekmore.Creekmore is a two-time winner of the Scripps College Cartoonist of the Year and an Associated Press award for achievement in college cartooning. Creekmore's strip first appeared in the newspaper at Lipscomb University in Nashville. Maintaining was later picked up for syndication through Universal Press Syndicate. It was launched on May 7, 2007, and canceled in August 2009 for poor sales. The last daily strip was August 1, 2009.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Maintaining

    of Maintain

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  1. Maintaining

    Maintaining was a comic strip by cartoonist Nate Creekmore. Nate is a two-time winner of the Scripps College Cartoonist of the Year and an Associated Press award for achievement in college cartooning. Nate's strip first appeared in the newspaper at Lipscomb University in Nashville. Maintaining was later picked up for syndication through Universal Press Syndicate. It was launched on May 7, 2007 and canceled in August 2009 for poor sales. The last daily strip was August 1, 2009 and the last Sunday strip was August 30, 2009.

Editors Contribution

  1. maintainingverb

    Verb form of the word maintain.

    Maintaining peace is easy as the commitment is there for all to comply and all are grateful.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 5, 2020  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'maintaining' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4273

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of maintaining in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of maintaining in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of maintaining in a Sentence

  1. Boris Johnson:

    For the last few years I have said clearly if we didn't get reform we should be prepared to walk away. I think we now have a golden opportunity to shrug off a regulatory legislative burden that is profoundly undemocratic, we have got a once in a lifetime opportunity, which will not come again, to strike a new series of relationships, free trade deals with the growth economies around the world, whilst maintaining ... our free trade advantages with the European Union.

  2. Ron Mark:

    Maintaining maritime patrol capacity is essential for new Zealand's national security and for our ability to contribute to global security efforts.

  3. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards:

    Police officers and firefighters often perform life-saving acts of heroism, oftentimes under very dangerous circumstances, and are integral in maintaining order and civility in our society, the members of the law enforcement community deserve these protections.

  4. Shahar Azran/WJC:

    Preserving and conserving the remains of the Holocaust are critical to maintaining an accurate record of the atrocities committed, especially as the number of livingfirst-hand witnesses inevitably dwindles, only by knowing the past can we protect our future, and we are deeply grateful for Chancellor Merkel for her commitment to the preservation of the site where almost 1 million Jews were brutally murdered by the Nazis only and exclusively because they were Jews.

  5. Noam Chomsky:

    Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

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