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Meanings of maintain the fiction in английском

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Usage of maintain the fiction in английском
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She does not suspect the truth, of course, and it helps maintain the fiction.
The broken blade
2
Another reason not to maintain the fiction.
Frozen Heat
3
If I am to maintain the fiction that my father is in control of his House, Thomas cannot remain.
Blood rites
4
Best not to know and maintain the fiction that judges operate on pure intelligence applied to the law of the land.
The Guardian
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Locke and Jean had maintained the fiction of rooming together for several years.
The lies of locke lamora
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All the while she maintained the fiction that I had arranged things previously.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916
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Up to then, he maintained the fiction that he would fight me for it.
A journey: my political life
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In public, the paper and its publisher maintained the fiction that hacking was the work of a single rogue reporter.
The Guardian
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Several White House occupants, and candidates, have been sick or incapacitated - but they've often maintained the fiction that nothing is wrong.
Independent.ie
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To the very end she maintained the fiction that she was my foster-mother, responsible to my parents for my advancement in education and morals.
The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
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Cameron had not yet renegotiated the terms of Britain's EU membership and was still maintaining the fiction that he might back a vote to leave.
The Irish Times
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