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Definitions for SUSTAINED
sus·tained

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sustainedadjective

    maintained at length without interruption or weakening

    "sustained flight"

  2. free burning, sustainedadjective

    (of an electric arc) continuous

    "heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs"

Wiktionary

  1. sustainedadjective

    held continuously at a certain level

  2. sustainedadjective

    held at a certain pitch

Wikipedia

  1. sustained

    Sustain is a parameter of musical sound in time.

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  1. sustained

    Sustained generally means continuing or maintained at length without interruption or weakening. It is often used to describe something that is steady, constant, prolonged or extended over a certain period of time. This term can be applied in various contexts such as sustained effort, sustained growth, sustained attention, etc.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sustained

    of Sustain

  2. Sustainedadjective

    held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music

Editors Contribution

  1. sustained

    At a moderate level with an accurate amount or number.

    They had a sustained way of living.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 13, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SUSTAINED in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SUSTAINED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of SUSTAINED in a Sentence

  1. Michael Flynn:

    Really what they're trying to do overall, Jake, is reduce our confidence in our Democratic processes. And this is what they did obviously in 2016 and it's really part of a sustained campaign of political subversion.

  2. 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.

  3. Reinhold Niebuhr:

    Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

  4. Ben Le Brun:

    It looks at this stage as if it (oil) has formed a little bit of a bottom and perhaps we're going to see a sustained price in the $30s, maybe trending back up to $40 dollars at some point, the macro picture takes all corners of the globe into account, and those corners seem to be improving ... and that's where I'm seeing the oil price tick higher.

  5. Jeanne Marrazzo:

    None of those currently experiencing these worrisome trends ever fulfilled the criteria laid out by the task force, which included a sustained downtrend in the percent positive tests for at least 2 weeks.

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