keeping company

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Now, the massive vessel’s size — it’s more than 400 feet long — has played a role in preventing it from keeping company with other private yachts in Port Everglades, Fla., where it is anchored.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

Rather than the hammer blow of a mass walkout, the UAW has used strikes like a ratchet, keeping company executives guessing where the next turn would come.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2023

Nice things like this — a player in Washington keeping company among the best in the league — don’t happen every year for Wizards fans.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

Instead of establishing themselves among the most potent teams in the NFL, they’re keeping company with the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2019

As far as he knows, his brother is working at Goupil’s, living with De Haan, keeping company with him and other artists.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman