keep track

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keep track (third-person singular simple present keeps track, present participle keeping track, simple past and past participle kept track)

1. To monitor; to track or record; to understand or follow.

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   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

     Dalatrass: No good can come from curing the genophage.
     Shepard: The krogan have paid for their mistakes. The genophage has gone on long enough.
     Wrex: One thousand, four hundred and seventy-six years, if you're keeping track.
     Datatrass: It was a thousand years of peace free from these... brutes.

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  • There are many versions, and it's difficult to keep track.
  • There are many versions, and it's difficult to keep track of them all.

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