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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are perpetrated" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in contexts discussing actions that are carried out, often in relation to crimes or wrongdoings. Example: "Many injustices are perpetrated against marginalized communities every day."
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Especially where mass atrocities are perpetrated against them by mobs or militia.
"Massacres and other unlawful killings are perpetrated with impunity.
And, all too often, they are perpetrated in our penny stock markets.
But many are perpetrated, as this one was, by people who are clearly disturbed.
Massacres and other unlawful killings are perpetrated with impunity," the commission concludes.
The vast majority of sexual abuse cases are perpetrated by male coaches.
Again and again, in the US, such outrages are perpetrated by alienated, socially disconnected young men.
"Eighty-seven percent of sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone the child knows," she said.
No party minds low-road campaign tactics that are perpetrated by its own candidates.
Many mass shootings are perpetrated with revolvers or shotguns, which are unaffected by the magazine ban.
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Often the rapes with the highest levels of additional physical violence are perpetrated by partners and ex-partners.
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