Synonyms for sustained
sus·tained

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1. sustainedadjective

   maintained at length without interruption or weakening

   "sustained flight"

   Synonyms:
   free burning

   Antonyms:
   noncontinuous, discontinuous

2. free burning, sustainedadjective

   (of an electric arc) continuous

   "heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs"

   Synonyms:
   free burning

   Antonyms:
   discontinuous, noncontinuous

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1. List of paraphrases for "sustained":

   sustainable, supported, steady, continuing, continuous, lasting, continued, suffered, maintained, durable, constant, ongoing, persistent, argued, backed, incurred, underpinned, prolonged, protracted, enduring, continual, maintain

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1. Antony Blinken:

   The best possible thing that could happen is for the cessation of hostilities to really take root, and to be sustained, for the humanitarian assistance to flow and then for the negotiations to start.

2. Morgan Stanley:

   We anticipated further earnings estimate reductions through the 3Q results season, due to sustained PPI inflation, power shortages, and Delta-variant Covid outbreaks.

3. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda:

   Women and girls continue to bear the brunt of sustained attacks on innocent civilians, victims of rapes are asking themselves how many more women should be brutally attacked for this council to appreciate the magnitude of their plight.

4. Anne Case:

   We have come to expect mortality rates in middle age to continue to decline, which they did throughout most of the 20th century...it was really a surprise to see a sustained period when mortality rates actually increased (among middle-aged white Americans).

5. Oakbay Resources:

   This decision follows a sustained political attack on the Company, and the concern that the jobs and livelihoods of nearly one thousand employees would be at immediate risk as a result of the outgoing director's association with the company.