How to Use keep pace in a Sentence

keep pace

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  • Home prices haven’t cooled off much either, and wages haven’t kept pace.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 30 July 2026
  • In that case, these birds can keep pace with an earlier spring.
    — Morgan Tingley, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
  • And healthspans, the outlet notes, have not kept pace with lifespans.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • But keeping pace with that growth has been his biggest challenge.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 24 July 2026
  • That workplace is fading, and the controls have not kept pace.
    — Houman Akhavan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Dog walkers and fishermen waved, and a canoeist kept pace for a chat.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 9 Aug. 2026
  • What did not keep pace was the foundational work that makes any of it useful.
    — Vyom Bhardwaj, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • That’s often a sign governance hasn’t kept pace with adoption.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the pool of workers paying into the system has not kept pace.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
  • But the off-field controversies have struggled to keep pace with the on-pitch brilliance.
    — Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026
  • The bar is rising and the measurement framework is not keeping pace.
    — Dan Schawbel, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • And, across the board, the group either kept pace with or even excelled by comparison.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 9 July 2026
  • City officials say a new state law makes the move the best long-term solution to keep pace with the city’s rapid growth.
    — Noah Daly august 13, Idaho Statesman, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Inflation strains budgets when income doesn't keep pace with rising prices.
    — Catherine Brock, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • For much of that period, the industry itself has been trying to keep pace.
    — Kristi Adair-Pearcy, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Have your performance metrics kept pace with how the work has actually changed?
    — Andrew Antos, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • When wages don’t keep pace, people’s purchasing power is reduced.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • The response is already struggling to keep pace even without the threat of healthcare workers walking out in protest.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • There's broad agreement that the nation's air traffic control system has not kept pace with growing demand.
    — Joel Rose, NPR, 1 July 2026
  • But the surveillance system is increasingly failing to keep pace with the virus.
    — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But today’s emergency measures may not be enough to keep pace with tomorrow’s climate.
    — Curtis S. Chin, Fortune, 23 July 2026
  • Healthspans, however, have not kept pace, leaving many people with a painful gap between living long and living well.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • Tech is advancing at lightning speed, but that doesn’t mean organizations keep pace.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • If your portfolio isn't growing enough to keep pace with rising costs, your purchasing power can slowly erode.
    — Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • That's slower than the growth reported for June, and also means that wages are once again not keeping pace with inflation.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Employees are building a shadow digital workforce from the bottom up, just to keep pace with pressure from the top.
    — Steve Wilson, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • For a generation, the pipeline of new craft professionals hasn’t kept pace with demand.
    — Brendan Bechtel, Fortune, 25 July 2026
  • Periodic discovery alone cannot keep pace with this type of environment.
    — Asaf Kochan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • For founders already juggling product development, sales and hiring, keeping pace can feel like a full-time job in itself.
    — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Employees create their own automations when official systems cannot keep pace with real work.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026

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