pair up

phrasal verb

paired up; pairing up; pairs up

: to join together for a purpose, job, etc.

The two organizations paired up to educate the public about the threat of global warming.

Examples of pair up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

They're paired up as roommates and forge an unlikely friendship, but after an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum), Glinda and Elphaba go down two starkly different paths. —Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025

For his first Oscars, Pierce decided on a Giorgio Armani suit paired up with a vintage gold Tiffany’s brooch of a snake, and a Bulgari serpent ring as a nod to the Lunar New Year, Year of the Snake. —Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025

Singles are paired up on a team and rotate out to meet new people over the course of an hour in a league that lasts about five weeks. —Doha Madani, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2025

Apple's Ultra-level chips aren't singular pieces of silicon like the others but two of the firm's highest-performing processors paired up on a mainboard using a high-speed interconnect called UltraFusion. —Joe Osborne, PCMAG, 5 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for pair up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup