pair up

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.

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One team is working with Claude, while another is paired up with Copilot, and a third is using ChatGPT. — Chris Koehler, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 Astronomers were left with the troublesome task of pairing up two weird objects, smushing them together and hoping to get Lucifer as a result. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 How these capital gains tax strategies work Wealthy investors already use direct indexing strategies on platforms including Schwab to pair up stock gains and losses in a tax efficient way. — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 Radio Silence has since teamed Kathryn up with Samara Weaving in Ready or Not 2, and you got paired up with Jane Levy for River and Kiana Madeira for Beware Boiúna. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pair up

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“Pair up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pair%20up. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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