catchup

[ kach-uhp, kech- ]

noun

1. ketchup.

catchup

/ ˈkɛtʃ-; ˈkætʃəp /

noun

1. a variant spelling (esp US) of ketchup

Example Sentences

The corporation that could once transform both the worlds of advertising and of computing with a “Think Different” campaign is now the one playing catchup with the times, trying to emulate everyone else who once aimed to emulate Apple, and realizing it can no longer depend on squeezing profit from the locked intra-Apple hard- and software ecosystem it steadily built through its most exciting inventions.

From Slate

Insurance companies have been playing catchup with premiums, Sektnan said.

From Seattle Times

Somehow, though, Google missed the big chatbot moment and has been playing catchup ever since.

From Seattle Times

Like the Woodruffs, she was playing catchup after heavy rains flooded some of her fields weeks earlier.

From Seattle Times

When it comes to more substantive action, America is playing catchup to the European Union, which recently enacted the world’s first significant rules governing the development and use of AI.

From Seattle Times