abreast

What in the aggregate would have been a way of following the story, keeping abreast of events, doing my part as a well-informed citizen tipped over into addictive, unhealthy behavior.

They keep abreast of the cartel violence on the Mexico side of Sasabe.

As such, they spend most of their time staying abreast of local developments and gathering insights from sources in ways that won’t attract too much attention from their hosts.

They were really great and sort of kept me abreast on the casting process and would send me people's auditions.

In addition, parents felt policymakers should stay abreast of emerging technologies to create or modify laws and regulations that protect children online.