Thesaurus results for KEPT UP (WITH)

kept up (with)

verb

past tense of keep up (with)

as in communicated (with)

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And the vacuum here, which was filled in by complete cheerleaders a little bit, is very scary to me.

— Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
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

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The Indiana Utility Consumer Counselor was instructed to file a complaint and seek a review from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.

— Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Prosecutors said the witness was not intending to be inflammatory and asked that the jury be instructed to dismiss the statements from Heilbrun on her religion.

— Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026

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That’s the group of free agents who garner the most attention, players who have reached six years of service time or more.

— Evan Drellich, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2026
The companies’ interest in the Monarch data center shows how the feeding frenzy for compute has reached a new pitch as AI companies look to nail down capacity amid the AI buildout.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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The catalog spans genres such as fantasy, family drama, romance and billionaire romance, told in episodes running 60-90 seconds.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Roughly half of Stars and Stripes' $29 million annual budget comes from taxpayers, a person familiar with the newspaper's operations told CBS News last week.

— Joe Walsh, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

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