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US
/ˈfɑɫoʊˌəp/
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NOUN
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a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work
his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with - a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
How To Use follow-up In A Sentence
- Follow-ups at regular intervals also focus on relapse prevention.
- Only a follow-up blood test to measure serum cholesterol will show if the new diet was worth the trouble. Living with Angina
- One patient dropped out due to intercurrent illness, one patient was lost to follow-up, and one patient left the study due to personal reasons.
- His follow-up picture Assassin premiered at Cannes in 1997 to particularly dismissive critical opprobrium and never earned a release in the UK.
- Overall about half the participants had a seizure during follow-up.
- A follow-up post card was mailed to non-respondents one month after the initial mailing.
- All those so-called hipsters fervently awaiting Wes Anderson's follow-up to The Life Aquatic don't need to obsessively check IMDb; starting next week, they just have to turn on the TV. Bottle Racket
- The first, from 30 yards, was well-struck, but the keeper palmed it away and the follow-up from Anthony Ruddy was again smothered by the Erris custodian.
- They received follow-up data from the Greater Glasgow Health Board Audit of operable breast cancers.
- And, everyone, as a follow-up to the earlier post on critiquing/reviewing your friends 'work in public forums (fora? foramina?), if I ever post anything, like say a drawing of otters as a random totally-out-of-nowhere example, and there's anything wonky about it, yes, please feel free to say something. In case there isn't enough cuteness in your life
