maintain appearances
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maintain appearances
verb maintains appearances · maintaining appearances · maintained appearances
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Synonym of keep up appearances.
Under the guise of being “online” and capable of disseminating news instantaneously (known colloquially as “retweeting”), being active on Twitter, for media workers, gives the effect of fulfilling one’s occupational duty as well as all the parts of professional upkeep that, in the physical world, in
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