Catch up
Catch up verb - To catch or hold as if in a net.
Lose
Lose verb - To be unable to find or have at hand.
Both terms in one sentence
- In Bowser's Castle, the opposite is true: If you fall from first place and lose sight of the current first place, you will never catch up to it.
Source: Nintendo Hard / Racing Games - Not every fan knows that an anime series has to produce something during the dead time for the manga to catch up to the anime; one simply couldn't just put the show on a seasonal hiatus because viewers would assume it was cancelled and lose interest.
Source: Mis Blamed / Anime and Manga -
Can't Catch Up: Nozomu's increasingly feminine body causes him to gradually lose ground on the rest of his team and eventually his place in the starting lineup because they're getting bigger and stronger and he isn't.
Source: Manga / Nozomu Nozomi
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Lose and Catch up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/catch_up/lose
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