keeping up (with)

present participle of keep up (with)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for keeping up (with)
Verb
  • Agency employees received an email this week informing them that they are placed on administrative leave, until further notice.
    Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Copyright in particular is an issue that has plagued AI developers, as many continue to train their models on human work without informing the original creators, obtaining consent or providing compensation.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Alerting the local health department, which will help with notifying those who were potentially exposed.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Hours later, again without notifying his counsel, he was put on a plane from JFK airport to Dallas and then to Louisiana.
    Eric Levenson and Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The next year, Martin was accused of instructing staffers to regularly delete their emails to prevent them from becoming available to the media or public under the state’s Sunshine Law.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Whitfield doubles down on his previous orders, instructing the former sheepherder to murder all the Duttons and dump their bodies in the lawless border town.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Before the memoir was published, Sheila was talking with her editor, Douglas Gibson, who was Alice’s Canadian editor and publisher, and surprised herself by telling him about Andrea and Gerry.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • By some accounts, this Santa Tracker initiative kicked off by complete accident in 1955, when a Colorado Springs Sears printed a newspaper announcement telling children to call a certain phone number to chat with Santa.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Keeping up (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keeping%20up%20%28with%29. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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