KEEPING UP (WITH) Synonyms: 25 Similar Words

keeping up (with)

verb

present participle of keep up (with)

as in filling in

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Today, when leaders are rarely seen or heard, more people are filling in silence with assumptions and absence can quickly be interpreted as avoidance.

— Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026

Definition of filling in

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Financing On Saturday, the NFL sent a memo to the other 31 teams informing their leadership about the deal.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026
Khalra’s investigation alleged that thousands of people who had disappeared were cremated anonymously by police without informing their families or maintaining official records.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026

Definition of informing

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To make matters worse, the Department of Education sent emails to nine million people notifying them of approvals even as the plan was blocked.

— Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 2 July 2026
At the same time, the Commission recently published a Fair Chance Hiring Intake Form that asks complainants whether the employer provided such information when notifying them of an intent to rescind a job offer or take other adverse action.

— Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of notifying

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Eliminate Delays Caused By Vague Briefs The biggest drag is briefing latency.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
John Cohen, a former senior Homeland Security official who has been briefing state leaders before the matches, said the government was largely absent from planning meetings last year and did not begin sharing threat intelligence with host regions until recently.

— Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026

Definition of briefing

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Annemarie Cortez, the principal at an elementary school in Corona, California, told me that many administrators are instructing teachers not to assign full books; they’re supposed to be running discrete reading drills with short excerpts.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
The revelation suggests that some of the department’s recent, urgent notices to borrowers instructing them to change repayment plans quickly may have been overblown.

— Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of instructing

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Curator Nadine Hounkpatin, who organized the wider exhibition at Arles in which Phan’s images appear, has said that the body of work illustrates the kind of deeper truth-telling photography can do.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
Anna Maria says the Church had put him up for adoption without telling her.

— Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 12 July 2026

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