catch up
Example Sentences
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“When macro traders went looking for laggards with catch-up potential, cotton was near the top of the list.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
“We had to play catch-up a lot ever since then,” Cortez said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
The UK decided against running a widespread catch-up campaign to vaccinate teenagers, but some parents have been buying the jab privately.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
"We want to be ahead of the game, but because technology changes so fast, we sometimes find ourselves playing catch-up," he told AFP, adding that most perpetrators operate outside Singapore.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
Most girls are flipping and tumbling in Mommy and Me classes before they’re three, so in a way, I’d been playing catch-up.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
