catches up (with)

present tense third-person singular of catch up (with)
as in catches
to move fast enough to get even with I walked faster to catch up with my friends

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Verb
  • If your application catches FIFA’s eye, the next step is an invitation to Volunteer Team Tryouts, which run from October through January 2026.
    Meredith Heil Bock, AFAR Media, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Set in a small town in King’s home state of Maine, The Mist follows a group of characters who take shelter in a grocery store when a mysterious fog filled with eldritch monsters overtakes the town.
    James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Hype eclipses cash flows, and momentum overtakes fundamentals, leaving individual investors exposed to costly swings.
    Anmol Verma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Cherry, freed from police custody, shows up at the house, and Laura chases her up and down the stairs with a knife.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For example, much of the industry chases bragging rights on public benchmarks, which rank models on tasks like math or logic puzzles.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Catches up (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catches%20up%20%28with%29. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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