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  1. keepsnoun

    keeping

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  1. keeps

    Keeps is the present tense third person singular form of the verb "keep," which can have various meanings depending on the context. Generally, it refers to the act of retaining, holding, or maintaining something or someone in a particular state, condition, or position. It can also imply preserving, guarding, or looking after something or someone.

Editors Contribution

  1. keeps

    To have.

    She keeps all her business expenses in a tin in her car and every week takes them into the office and completes her business expense form.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 29, 2020  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'keeps' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4250

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'keeps' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1410

Anagrams for keeps »

  1. peeks

  2. Pekes

  3. speke

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of keeps in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of keeps in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of keeps in a Sentence

  1. Barbara Kingsolver:

    What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

  2. Tamara Harris:

    It keeps us spending, and it helps the economy, it's going back one way or the other.

  3. The SEC:

    He just keeps pushing the envelope, in other similar situations, CEOs at this point... would have been terminated.

  4. Chris Kozak:

    A number of signs, including a higher concentration of air strikes, the movement of Russian artillery support for regime forces, and a variety of skirmishes near a 3-to-4 kilometer gap that still keeps Aleppo City from being besieged, all show that they are getting ready to move.

  5. Jon Ronson:

    I'm sure she has her fair share of trauma and anxiety and so on, but she never lets it get to her. She always just keeps going. And there's no rancor, if you'd been falsely accused of murder and convicted and falsely imprisoned for several years, you would presumably feel some rancor towards the people who did that to you, but she doesn't. She works really hard to feel empathy and curiosity and compassion towards everybody -- including her prosecutors.

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