Keeping in a sentence as a noun

Don't make the mistake of keeping the wrong one; if you do... that's an exercise to the reader.

The talking points are keeping things intentionally muddled where they could easily make it more plain.

The submitted site seems to be having trouble keeping up with the referrals from Hacker News, judging by its response time.

Some people love this work, they can stay useful and "in the game", but some hate it because it comes with the cachet of being stale and not keeping up with the times.

This means malaria must be really good at two things: keeping its host walking around and going undetected for as long as possible.

I really, really hope the culture of leaking information becomes so strong that governments will become incapable of keeping anything a secret.

I like hnsearch a lot, but I'd like us to take a second to thank whoever was running SearchYC, which for the past couple years has been practically indispensable in keeping up with this community.

This is the basic level of keeping the books clean, organizing your papers, etc.- Then there's a level of prep that it makes sense to do when you think you are getting close to a term sheet, or planning to start to actively seek acquisition.

During that entire time, her article stood with a very prominent notice saying it was going to be deleted, with a prominent link allowing people to argue in favor of keeping or, better yet, locate a real reliable source backing up any claim to her notability.

So too would a development team that has invested huge amounts of money and time into a development effort that gives them a significant competitive advantage over others and whose business model turns on keeping that advantage to themselves exclusively.

Quite often though industry biases will engage and they'll be put on duty keeping some legacy system alive because their deep knowledge of the system lets the company put 1 guy maintaining half a million lines of code in perpetuity vs. 10 young guys maintaining the same, who all wanting to leave after a few years to build more skills.

Keeping definitions

noun

conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion"

noun

the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping"

See also: guardianship safekeeping

noun

the act of retaining something

See also: retention holding