pair up

phrasal verb

paired up; pairing up; pairs up

: to join together for a purpose, job, etc.

The two organizations paired up to educate the public about the threat of global warming.

Examples of pair up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Pittsburgh golfer and caddie paired up and ready for first round of The Masters 01:40 Aside from carrying the heavy bag, the caddie also provides input on which club to use, as well as swing technique, Martin said. —

Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024 Crocs, those plastic slip-on shoes, are the most promiscuous of this bunch, pairing up with Pop-Tarts, KFC, and McDonald’s (for a violently purple Grimace edition), among others. —

Emily Heil, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024 Relationships benefit from difficult communications while the Cancer moon pairs up with Saturn. —

USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024 The video shows student volunteers who were paired up, one set sitting on chairs while the others laid down below them and licked peanut butter off of their toes. —

Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024 The contents included a screen capture apparently from Omegle, an online chat service that pairs up users via video. —

Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024 One of Summer’s clients set her up with Jon Ellen Moxley, a client of Summer’s and a friend of Jon's mom, set the pair up for a blind date in May 2017. —

Mckinley Franklin, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023 The account mistakenly claimed that the students were paired up with adults in the activity, however. —

Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024 While its engineers and designers worked on developing products of their own, Honda paired up with Isuzu to get the Isuzu Rodeo rebadged as the Honda Passport. —

Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

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