up to date

See also: uptodate, and up-to-date

English

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Prepositional phrase

up to date

1. Alternative spelling of up-to-date
   • 1913 May 15, Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, “A Question Not of Sex Appeal; But of Prevailing Mode.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The clothes of these marching women were, it is quite true, essentially up to date.

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[2], volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

   • 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 35:

     For example, during the early days of construction, some landowners and local residents felt they were not being kept up to date with what was happening on a day-to-day basis, or that information wasn't always easy to come by.

Noun

up to date (plural up to dates)

1. (cocktails) A sherry based cocktail.

Further reading

up to date (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia