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keeps

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Editorial note

The irony is that for many people laboring under a very unmeritocratic society, its the one sliver of wealth which keeps them afloat.

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Definitions

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noun

Only used in for keeps

Example sentences

1

The irony is that for many people laboring under a very unmeritocratic society, its the one sliver of wealth which keeps them afloat.

2

The crappy scrolling on the Mac is what keeps me away from Firefox.

3

The idea is that it keeps back a certain amount of water.

4

So my guess is a bit of friendly competition that keeps spurring new innovation (similar to the browser wars).

5

A company the size of Microsoft keeps a lot of attorneys on salary, and others on retainer.

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He usually keeps his phone either in the front pockets of his trousers, or the inside pocket of his jacket.

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By importing such workers, it unfairly keeps those developers' wages down by creating an artificial surplus of employees at that level.

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It's well known the military keeps civilian Soylent technology years behind what they're using.

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Indomitable willpower is what keeps you training for hours after it stopped being fun.

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These days Facebook content quality is on par with TV and keeps going down.

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This offsets one on the main weaknesses of capitalism, that capital keeps concentrating.

12

More recently focusing on front-end work; having users happy to interact with something I've built is what keeps me motivated.

Quote examples

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It saves stories and keeps track of "story trees", randomly fetching a story piece from the tree each time you read it.

2

"developing during childhood like every other aspect" This just keeps being repeated, as if it's fact, but it's just not true.

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How do you use keeps in a sentence?

The irony is that for many people laboring under a very unmeritocratic society, its the one sliver of wealth which keeps them afloat.

What does keeps mean?

Only used in for keeps

What part of speech is keeps?

keeps is commonly used as noun.