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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Caught up with

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"his first in-studio interview was with CNN's Dana Bash (an NBC News reporter caught up with him outside of Lewandowski's apartment as he ..."

How is the underlined phrase different from "caught up to someone"?

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I understand them to mean the same. For me, the natural expression is "catch up with someone", but I believe that some people do use "to" instead. content=caught+up+to+him%2Ccaught+up+with+him&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3

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  • I understand them to mean the same.
  • For me, the natural expression is "catch up with someone", but I believe that some people do use "to" instead.
  • content=caught+up+to+him%2Ccaught+up+with+him&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3
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I understand them to mean the same. For me, the natural expression is "catch up with someone", but I believe that some people do use "to" instead.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caught+up+to+h
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