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live up

/ ɪ /

verb

  1. intr, adverbfoll byto to fulfil (an expectation, obligation, principle, etc)
  2. live it up informal.
    to enjoy oneself, esp flamboyantly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The law only has meaning when we, the people, demand it live up to its promise.

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And we each have so many ways to demand the law live up to its promise.

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"We have a minerals deal which I guess is going to be signed on Thursday... next Thursday. Soon. And I assume they're going to live up to the deal. So we'll see. But we have a deal on that," he said.

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YouTuber MrBeast has issued an apology after his 'MrBeast Experience' at a Las Vegas resort did not live up to the billing.

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The White House said in its own letter that Harvard had "in recent years failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment".

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