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Definition for follow up

verb as in make inquiries

noun as in carry-over

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A May 2025 follow-up, “I’m Camera,” dealt with the depersonalizing effects of sudden attention.

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Trachtenberg’s “secret” follow-up that landed earlier this year, the animated “Predator: Killer of Killers,” is the first to provide a glimpse of the lethal alien race’s home world, Yautja Prime.

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Ordinary patients who receive such results may get sucked into needless and costly follow-up testing, she says.

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In adulthood, he is often asked where he is from, with his response sometimes bringing the follow-up "but where are you really from?"

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The rain could even end up being a helpful follow-up to the precipitation from the past few weeks to stifle the possibility of wildfires.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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