"keep pace" meaning in English

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      "form": "keeps pace",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "keeping pace",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "kept pace",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "kept pace",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To run at the same speed as a pacesetter"
      ],
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          "speed",
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          "pacesetter",
          "pacesetter"
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        "(idiomatic) To run at the same speed as a pacesetter"
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157",
          "text": "From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The problem of the peak”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130",
          "text": "A £3½ million scheme to modify stations, track and signalling for the operation of ten- instead of eight-car trains on the South Eastern Division of the S.R. did no more than keep pace with the growth of peak-hour travel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To progress at the same rate as another; to keep up"
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          "progress"
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        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ],
        [
          "keep up",
          "keep up"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To progress at the same rate as another; to keep up"
      ],
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  "word": "keep pace"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "kept pace",
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        "past"
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        "To run at the same speed as a pacesetter"
      ],
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          "speed",
          "speed"
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          "pacesetter",
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        "(idiomatic) To run at the same speed as a pacesetter"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The problem of the peak”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130",
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        }
      ],
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        "To progress at the same rate as another; to keep up"
      ],
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          "progress"
        ],
        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ],
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          "keep up",
          "keep up"
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      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To progress at the same rate as another; to keep up"
      ],
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