kept up (with)

past tense of keep up (with)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kept up (with)
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Prior to the concert, Hager explained that her eldest daughter, Mila, had instructed her to wear polka dots to the event.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The dispatcher then instructed him on performing chest compressions.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Albany Police Department said Cobb County police notified the agency of Gallimore's arrest.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • On Friday, the e-commerce giant notified some subscribers about a change to Amazon’s Conditions of Use and how the company will handle disputes with customers with its products or services sold.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Kevin Dickinson The Learning Curve Every era believes it is enlightened.
    Big Think, Big Think, 31 July 2026
  • This facility really enlightened the physics of that operation considerably.
    Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • My editor has asked me to keep her apprised of my heart rate.
    Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • Jolley stressed the importance of keeping the Health and Human Services appropriations staff apprised of the agency's finances.
    Jillian Taylor, StateImpact, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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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“Kept up (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kept%20up%20%28with%29. Accessed 23 Aug. 2026.

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