catch up (with)

Definition of catch up (with)next
as in to catch
to move fast enough to get even with I walked faster to catch up with my friends

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  • Overall, about half of children with the disease are infected during birth, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said, while others caught it from family members.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In 2023, the NCAA put in guidelines that punish athletes caught gambling on their own school, or other sports at their school, with a permanent loss of eligibility.
    Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
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  • Provincial Bavarian and British ethno-sentimental varieties come easily to mind, and in the twenty-first century, American exports of material culture will likely be overtaken worldwide by Chinese trinkets in the style of Temu-Rococo.
    Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • Tribune correspondents Ronald Yates — who was one of the last American journalists to leave Phnom Penh when the Cambodian capital fell to insurgents just weeks earlier — and Philip Caputo lost contact with the newspaper in South Vietnam just before Saigon was overtaken by communist North Vietnam.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Catch up (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catch%20up%20%28with%29. Accessed 5 May. 2026.

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