catch up to
Example Sentences
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The driver helped PC Kerswell catch up to Roberts, who was arrested and later jailed for one year and two months for a number of driving offences.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
China also worries that AI could bring doomsday—but first it wants to catch up to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
There’s a practical element that is we needed the characters’ ages to catch up to our own ages a little bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Like your friend, they will tell themselves that they will get around to it, but the afterlife can catch up to them first.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Well, we’ll catch up to him, and if we don’t—that’s his concern. He doesn’t know where he’s going and, for the matter of that, neither do we.”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
