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kept up

VERB

maintain, sustain

Synonyms

STRONGEST

hold on

WEAK

balance compete contend continue emulate go on keep pace keep step match pace persevere preserve rival run with vie

Antonyms

WEAK

let go neglect

Example Sentences

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kept up

They’re been going up more slowly recently, but incomes have still not kept up.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

And though business seldom matched pre-pandemic levels, Fanara kept up his community philanthropy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

And the 70-year-old seems to have kept up his reputation in his official Fifa portrait for the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

Even though the wearables can only infer the stages, using heart rate and movement data, they kept up pretty well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Christopher kept up a steady turn of his head, left to right.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell