play catch up

India has close to 970 million voters among its more than 1.4 billion people, and its general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad alliance of opposition parties that are struggling to play catch up.

Dergarabedian noted that Memorial Day weekend is a time when moviegoers play can play catch up with films they’ve missed and heard about.

"So, if you could be here around nine, that would be great, mmmkay? . . . Oh, and I almost forgot. Uhhhhh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too, 'kay? We, ahh, lost some people this week and, uhh, we sorta need to play catch up."

As a result, researchers and policymakers are constantly “trying to play catch up to the ever evolving changes in platforms and adolescent use patterns,” Linda Charmaraman, director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab at the Wellesley Centers for Women, who was not involved with the National Academies’ report, said in an email.

While regulators play catch up, some tools are emerging to help protect artists.