keeping up
Example Sentences
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Worker pay is rising just over 3% a year, barely keeping up with inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Moyes, 63, has spoken of the challenge of keeping up with the biggest spenders in the Premier League, with Everton ranking 15th of the current top-flight teams for net spend over the past five years.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Patti has that great quote, ‘Progress isn’t the future, it’s keeping up with the present,’ and my present is unfolding at actually quite an unexpectedly rapid rate, so today, I’m just gonna ride that pony.”
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
“The beauty of this is if society would understand how much bigger the cost is from the failure of infrastructure we could finally invest more money in keeping up our infrastructure as we should.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Making Egypt pay, therefore, depended on keeping up the infrastructure and social institutions that had already existed for millennia, such as irrigation, flood control, and conscripted labor.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
