How to Use keep up with the times in a Sentence

keep up with the times

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  • Fifty-five years later the hotel strives to keep up with the times.
    Allyson Portee, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Still, tech is in everything these days, and even non-techy fashion brands are eager to keep up with the times.
    WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
  • But pubs, Kerridge explains, are having to diversify and keep up with the times, just like everyone else.
    Rebecca Rose, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Having only stairs, even for a four-story building, became like living with a privy rather than an indoor toilet: an embarrassing failure to keep up with the times.
    Max Holleran, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Leonsis believes that the more leagues can keep up with the times and think of themselves as technology companies that produce content and embrace sports betting partnerships, the better.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Taking cues from Stella McCartney, Dixon is also crafting sculptures out of mycelium, proving design must keep up with the times to provide earth-friendly pieces that still pack an aesthetic punch.
    Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 8 June 2022
  • Yet there's another revealing figure that underscores how the minimum wage — created by Congress after the Great Depression as a way to ensure that Americans were fairly paid for their labor — has failed to keep up with the times.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Some colleagues questioned whether Mr. O’Rourke’s political transformation was authentic, accusing him of being an opportunist who had shifted rightward merely to keep up with the times.
    Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022

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