catch up

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as in to fascinate
to hold the attention of as if by a spell completely caught up in opera ever since he saw La Traviata

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Recent Examples of catch up Everybody gets caught up in the heat of the moment. Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 Introducing Collections, a faster-than-ever way to catch up on your favorite celebs, pop culture moments and original PEOPLE video series. Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025 Of course, bursting through the clouds is our Elphaba, who's already made her decision and is just waiting for somebody to catch up. Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025 This is part of a flurry of strategist target increases as the Street catches up to the market’s run. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for catch up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catch up
Verb
  • The last is dumping iron dust into the Southern Ocean to provoke phytoplankton blooms that would suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a move that set off a backlash when an American entrepreneur tried it off Canada in 2012.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Flip that switch, and suddenly every market becomes accessible, and good ideas trapped behind a language wall get unleashed.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Molina, who is fascinated by silver screen legend Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez), distracts himself and Valentín with a recounting of his favorite film of hers — The Kiss of the Spider Woman.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That kind of content always fascinated me, both sides of it, actually, the victimology and the perpetrator’s perspective.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The fund also uses zero leverage—a nice extra margin of safety should interest rates unexpectedly rise.
    Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Jazz have another veteran big man who could interest rival teams in Lauri Markkanen, who has been the subject of trade rumors lately.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The algorithms are tuned with AI models informed by physics, allowing the sensors to adapt in real time without massive data training.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Israel had to inform the US without jeopardizing the operation.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tatum plays Jeffrey Manchester, a veteran tangled haplessly up in good intentions and a life of petty crime.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
  • He got tangled up in a rundown with two other future Hall of Famers, George Kell and Luis Aparicio.
    Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Taylor and Travis corn maze will open on Saturday and folks at Johnson Farms hope the visitors will be enchanted.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
  • However, Labyrinth has since become a beloved cult favorite, continuing to enchant and delight viewers.
    Logan Karlie September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • My father was a thirty-two-year-old tank commander who had crossed to occupied France shortly after D-Day, fought in the savage battle for Caen and then on through northern France.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In other words, the festival space now occupies a similar footprint as the Kentucky State Fair, minus the South Wing and Freedom Hall.
    Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An allied assertion is that if AI generates foul code, tell the AI to get its act together and fix the darned stuff.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Carlson asked the state’s environmental agency about the protocol for discontinuing treatment and was told to keep the state posted.
    Anna Clark, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2025

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