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as in to survive
to continue to operate or to meet one's needs
let's hope that old air conditioner keeps up through this heat wave
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as in to preserve
to keep in good condition
kept the house up while the owners were gone
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as in to remain
to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state
let's hope this beautiful weather keeps up for the rest of our vacation
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Recent Examples of keep up
Balancing appointments, dealing with side effects from treatments, and keeping up with the basic necessities of life can be overwhelming.
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Rachel Murphy, Health, 8 Jan. 2025
The bottom line: San Antonio's growth spurt is undeniable, but its housing market's ability to keep up is still in question.
—Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
These hybrid tactics are intentionally hard to trace, and NATO allies on the front lines of tensions with Russia say the alliance isn’t doing enough to keep up.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
The virus is to blame for below-normal levels of egg production that can’t keep up with consumer demand, which leads to higher prices.
—Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Rachel Murphy, Health, 8 Jan. 2025
The bottom line: San Antonio's growth spurt is undeniable, but its housing market's ability to keep up is still in question.
—Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
These hybrid tactics are intentionally hard to trace, and NATO allies on the front lines of tensions with Russia say the alliance isn’t doing enough to keep up.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
The virus is to blame for below-normal levels of egg production that can’t keep up with consumer demand, which leads to higher prices.
—Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for keep up
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Almost all of the houses in their cul-de-sac, in west Altadena had survived.Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
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The surviving developers are struggling to finish projects and barely taking on new apartment buildings.Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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More news: First-Round Draft Pick Who Pitched For Orioles, Cubs Dies at 37 Alternatively, preserving a one-run lead in the eighth inning against a good team's 1-2-3 hitters has taken on elevated importance.Newsweek, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Avoid bad debt and focus on acquiring assets to preserve your wealth.Melissa Houston, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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On a year-on-year basis, pork and fresh vegetable prices remain elevated, climbing 12.5%.Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
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While the potent winds driving the fires to rapidly escalate were expected to die down by Thursday night, the initial causes of all the blazes remain under investigation.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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By their nature, periods of volatility don’t tend to last that long before things return to the mean.Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Though this will be just his second playoff appearance, Love's first postseason game last season left a lasting impression.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
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He’s also conserved water by changing his planting patterns, leaving the debris from the prior crop on the soil to limit evaporation.Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Scarce magazines of Tomahawk missiles can be conserved for the highest-value targets while masses of Barracudas can tackle everything else, and so on.David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area continued to burn mostly out of control on Thursday, with at least five blazes engulfing more than 45 square miles.Max Butterworth, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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The saga between Bo Bichette and the Toronto Blue Jays continues.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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But a pair of clerks prevailed on one justice to read The Autobiography of Malcolm X.Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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And, lucky for us, these good mutations prevail a lot of the time.Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
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Over the years, this object has been tracked by the US military, which maintains a database of space objects so that active spacecraft can avoid collisions.Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
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Legal experts stress the importance of maintaining public confidence in the judicial process while balancing the operational needs of the presidency.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Keep up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keep%20up. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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