abreast of

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.

Insta-polls started showing Harris pulling abreast of Trump, and just nine days after Biden dropped out of the race, a poll by Bloomberg/Morning Consult said Harris had “wiped out Donald Trump’s lead across seven battleground states, as the vice president rides a wave of enthusiasm among young, Black and Hispanic voters.”

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.

Recio repeatedly asked Costanzo to query names in a confidential DEA database to keep abreast of federal investigations that would interest his new employers.