Definition of "maintained" []

• Showing maintenance or attention (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of maintain. (verb)

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• "Starting with issue #1 Jan. 9, 2008, the title maintained a steady publication schedule for most of the first eight issues, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside."
• "The Iraqi government under President Saddam Hussein maintained from the start that Speicher perished at the crash site."
• "The Iraqi government under President Saddam Hussein maintained from the start that Speicher perished at the site where his F/A-18 fighter jet crashed in the desert."