KEEPS (ON) Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

keeps (on)

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present tense third-person singular of keep (on)

as in runs on

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The price is normally higher around the fall, ahead of the harvest season, when it's needed to power agricultural equipment — 75% of which runs on diesel, according to the Engine Technology Forum.

— Willa Rubin, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
Crucially, the reactor core runs on TRISO particle fuel, which packs uranium inside four concentric isotropic layers of carbon and silicon carbide.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of runs on

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Closing out the evening at Louis Armstrong Stadium, American Learner Tien takes on Russian Karen Khachanov, hoping to join compatriots Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe and Alex Michelsen in the last eight.

— Reuters, NBC news, 7 Sep. 2026
Newport Harbor is 9-0 and takes on Edison and Marina in league matches this week before beginning play in the Dave Mohs tournament.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of takes on

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The compilation misses remaining in the highest tier by only two rungs, while The Essential Michael Jackson barely holds on inside the bottom quarter of the 200-position roster.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
House Bill 945 establishes new regulations for cryptocurrency kiosks and allows financial institutions to place temporary holds on transactions when elder financial exploitation is suspected.

— Christopher Harris, CBS News, 29 June 2026

Definition of holds on

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The company already had a strong corporate presence in the city, but has since expanded and employs 2,500 Georgians, as well as workers around the world at 5,300 global locations.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
The company employs about 850 people, does hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure work around the Northeast, and is frequently Connecticut’s choice on big-ticket contracts to construct schools, rebuild highways or repair bridges.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of employs

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Their competitiveness has been consumed by the reactions from two audiences with incompatible expectations, and some of that nonsense persists because no one at the top did the work of refereeing the discourse.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The waste persists because there’s a gap between knowing and doing, measured in human latency no dashboard can close.

— Devendra Rajput, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of persists

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Set against the competitive world of Fleet Street, Murdoch purchases the failing Sun and recruits Lamb, a working-class editor with a very different idea of what a newspaper can be.

— Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
In the 1990 original, Quaid played a race team owner who recruits Cole into NASCAR, while Nicole Kidman played a neurosurgeon who becomes Cole’s love interest.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026

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