keep up
verb
kept up; keeping up; keeps up
1
: to keep adequately informed or up-to-date
keep up on international affairs
2
: to continue without interruption
rain kept up all night
3
: to maintain contact or relations with someone
keep up with old friends
Examples of keep up in a Sentence
let's hope that old air conditioner keeps up through this heat wave
kept the house up while the owners were gone
Recent Examples on the Web
For a couple of years, those pay increases were outpaced by inflation, leaving households struggling to keep up.
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Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
Meanwhile a stretched and limited dispatch center had single operators monitoring five or six channels at a time to keep up.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
Her body was found in a vacant home in Phenix City, Ala.
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?
—Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024
The sharp escalation in worker protests arose from widespread dissatisfaction with sluggish wage gains, which in many cases had failed to keep up with rapid price hikes, experts previously told ABC News.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
Eli Lilly, the world’s most valuable pharmaceutical company, can’t keep up with soaring demand of its popular diabetes and weight loss drugs.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
The group attributed Superdry’s tide turning to the fad-like nature of fashion, which the brand didn’t keep up with to stay relevant.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
The two delegations kept up talks over videoconference but returned to meeting in person on March 29, this time in Istanbul, Turkey.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
Watch data integrity when AI systems interact: Robust governance is needed to keep up with the proliferation of AI technologies and their evolving rules.
—David Zuluaga Martínez, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
Meanwhile a stretched and limited dispatch center had single operators monitoring five or six channels at a time to keep up.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
Her body was found in a vacant home in Phenix City, Ala.
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?
—Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024
The sharp escalation in worker protests arose from widespread dissatisfaction with sluggish wage gains, which in many cases had failed to keep up with rapid price hikes, experts previously told ABC News.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
Eli Lilly, the world’s most valuable pharmaceutical company, can’t keep up with soaring demand of its popular diabetes and weight loss drugs.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
The group attributed Superdry’s tide turning to the fad-like nature of fashion, which the brand didn’t keep up with to stay relevant.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
The two delegations kept up talks over videoconference but returned to meeting in person on March 29, this time in Istanbul, Turkey.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
Watch data integrity when AI systems interact: Robust governance is needed to keep up with the proliferation of AI technologies and their evolving rules.
—David Zuluaga Martínez, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Keep up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keep%20up. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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