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keep abreast

v. keep informed; "He kept up on his country's foreign policies" [syn: keep up, follow]

Usage examples of "keep abreast".

Naturally those sort of rules make it difficult for us to keep abreast with their activities, and they are by no means always criminal ones at that.

And it was Sunday Simms who was able to explain this curiosity, because she assiduously read every town newspaper, to improve her German, and always translated the society news items for Clover Lee, who liked to keep abreast of the doings of counts and dukes and such.

He was paying his daily visit to the control-room to keep abreast of things and to see how Hank Botham was getting on - they'd only managed to have a few words together because the Old Man decided to go to action stations half an hour ago.

It's not even trying to keep abreast, economically and technologically, with the Commonality and the Federation, and is falling farther behind every decade.

He liked to keep abreast of community happenings and politics so he could discuss them with his associates.

Though it wasn't nearly as good--usually--as the intelligence documents waiting on the table for him, the Washington Post also covered things whose interest was not strictly governmental, and so was fuel for his normal desire to keep abreast of things.