catch up ("to reach and overtake"): Transitive or intransitive in BrE, strictly intransitive in AmE (to catch sb up/to catch up with sb).

With 16 miles to go, the field had caught up.

Since then, the culture has in some ways caught up.

A. Sometimes we get so caught up with our own lives.

Finally, the rest of the world has caught up with her.

He gets more caught up in show business than I do.

New people came and old friends caught up on news.

I caught up with him not long ago to hear his story.

She knew what would happen when they finally caught up with her.

After a moment or two, he caught up to her.

By the time I caught up with her, she was dead already.

What would happen if and when they caught up with them?

I caught up with him when he got back to the office.

He caught up to her at the end of the street.

Then he caught up with what the man had said.

I feel I've had enough time to get caught up.

Now technology has caught up, at least on the home front.

I hope to be caught up in less than a week.

He was nearly to the road when she caught up with him.

How had the big man caught up to him so quickly?

When he caught up with her she would tell him.

Something from his past may have caught up with him.

And here he was caught up in a game of war.

We're caught up in our own close view of time.

I caught up with him just as he started to get in.

We went to my room and caught up on things.

I just mean that catchup was a big thing in his life, too.

No man could come away without a strong opinion about catchup.

Since then the Republicans have been involved in a game of catchup.

Let's talk soon so we can act like tomatoes and catchup.

A fourth and final catchup will take place in early January.

No, but we can listen for him if he tries to play catchup.

"When we opened, no one had heard of us, and we've been playing catchup ever since."

"There's almost always some catchup that goes on," he said.

On top of that, playing catchup in 2012 will be inordinately difficult.

Remembering those dark days, he rubbed his eyes, reached for the catchup.

Us Americans have to play a little catchup ball.

Harry's anxieties about the catchup industry had become a part of me.

He's going to spend the whole time playing catchup.

Many here know they're playing a game of catchup with the athletes who dope.

Nintendo’s just playing catchup here, so it’s hard to fault the company for raising prices.

For the women's team, most of the rest of the world is playing catchup.

Detective Finn came back first and began with a little catchup.

You don't want to play catchup ball in the World Series.

For well over a decade, television has been taking on a multicultural cast, playing catchup with the society itself.

Some of it (playing catchup on inheritance tax) was bad timing.

He wanted to track this down and he had to play catchup.

Even the Federal Reserve seems to be playing catchup with the economy.

Given the speed at which technology moves and how slow parents have been to react, a lot of them must play catchup.

"But now it faces an almost hopeless job of catchup.

It will be tough to play catchup in this game, especially for New York.

Why do we want to stay in the catch-up business?

Now everybody has to play a serious game of catch-up.

And catch-up with many other education systems around the world.

We usually start the day with a bit of a catch-up.

We see each other once a week now and play catch-up.

After almost a year and a half they were still playing catch-up.

In terms of getting a drug to market, the company is playing catch-up.

We need to take the lead in games and not be playing catch-up.

We had to play catch-up last night and tonight was the same thing.

Out of season is always a good time to catch-up on such work.

I'm just playing catch-up because they were in a week earlier than me.

His heart and mind were set on playing catch-up while he still had time.

After reading his list, I am beginning to feel the need to play a little catch-up.

A catch-up campaign is now under way for older girls.

Now that is an area where I am playing catch-up.

But for the moment, she is the one playing catch-up.

Europe’s leaders are really just playing catch-up on this idea.

From then on, the rest of the field was playing catch-up.

And I still feel like we’re playing a bit of catch-up.

But it is a race in which they are playing catch-up.

There was a lot of time we had to play catch-up.

It is almost as if they are playing a game of catch-up.

So I've been doing some reading and then working on catch-up stuff.

Both men have described the meeting as a social catch-up.

Clearly, American television is only beginning to play catch-up ball.