Thesaurus results for KEPT UP (WITH)

kept up (with)

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past tense of keep up (with)

as in communicated (with)

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Earlier this year, Colman Domingo, Tiffany Haddish, Anthony Anderson, and Ike Barinholtz all filled in so Kimmel could go fishing.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026
Gasper has filled in admirably for Yoshida, homering in his third straight game Wednesday.

— Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

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Executions are carried out in secrecy in Japan, where prisoners are not informed of their fate until the morning of their hanging.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
That’s in addition to the earlier dismantling of USAID (which trained social mobilizers for surveillance and active case finding) and the withdrawal from the WHO (whose technical expertise informed laboratory strengthening and data systems).

— Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

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While at the scene, they were notified by BART police that a third stabbing victim had been found near the Fruitvale station.

— Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Local media reported that the executions took place in the notorious Qarnada military prison in the northeastern town of Shahat, and that their families were notified to receive their bodies from a hospital in the city of Benghazi.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

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The South Bay reached record employment in July, adding 3,300 jobs even as California shed 20,500 positions and the Bay Area’s technology sector continued to contract, new state figures show.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
While both sides have indicated that an interim agreement is forthcoming, with the president even Truthing Wednesday that a deal had been reached, it hasn’t been finalized.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026

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Dallas appellate attorney David Coale, who has handled appeals for decades, told CBS News Texas after the trial that Anthony's team could have several strong arguments over whether the trial was handled correctly.

— CBS Texas Staff, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Nearly an hour after Nolan was last seen, friends on one of the boats noticed its bilge pump had failed and water was rapidly filling the hull, Tyler Cox and Edward Paltzik, attorneys for the friends, told CNN.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

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