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bring up to date

Idioms  

  1. Convey information up to the present; also, make one aware of or conform to new ideas, improvements, or styles. For example, Bring me up to date on the test results, or We've been bringing Grandma up to date with a little makeup and some new clothes. The term up to date comes from bookkeeping, where it signifies account entries to the present time. [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

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The 2019 Conservative party manifesto promised to bring up to date "analogue laws" for the digital age.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2022

The Paycheck Fairness Act would bring up to date the Equal Pay Act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson nearly 50 years ago.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2012

"The goal is to bring up to date the mechanism of tax collection, better serve citizens and establish a transparent and fair tax framework," it said.

From Reuters • May 25, 2010

If James Aloysius Farley in the New Deal's turbulent heyday had attempted to bring up to date the philosophy of John Locke, the U.S. would have a better precedent for understanding Chen Li-fu.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will supplement and bring up to date references to the work of this great Church in the earlier chapters of this book.

From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by Sellers, William Edward

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