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abreast

[uh-brest]

side by side; beside each other in a line: They walked two abreast down the street.

equal to or alongside in progress, attainment, or awareness (usually followed by of or with): to keep abreast of scientific developments; keeping abreast with the times.

Origin:
1590–1600; a-¹ + breast

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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abreast (əˈbrɛst)

—*adj* (foll by of or with)
1.	alongside each other and facing in the same direction
2.	up to date (with); fully conversant (with)

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abreast

mid-15c., on brest, from a- (1) + breast; the notion is of "with breasts in line." To keep abreast in fig. sense of "stay up-to-date" is from 1650s.

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