Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of following up, as to further an end or review new developments.
- noun One that follows so as to further an end or increase effectiveness.
- noun An article or a report giving further information on a previously reported item of news.
- adjective Intended to follow up, as to reinforce or evaluate previous action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a second (or subsequent) action to increase the effectiveness of an initial action. Also used attributively.
- noun (Journalism) A subsequent story providing information discovered or events happening after a first story was published.
- noun (Journalism) Same as
sidebar .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A subsidiary
action taken as the result of anevent . - noun Internet A posted message on a
newsgroup , etc. in reply to a previous one. - noun sports A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb increase the effectiveness or success of by further action
- verb pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
- noun an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
- noun a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- noun a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work
- noun a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work
- noun an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
- noun a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
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Examples
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A paper Tuesday in JAMA reports long-term follow-up from the SELECT trial.
Alfred Neugut, M.D. Ph.D.: High-Dose Vitamins and Risk Alfred Neugut 2011
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I think the note of caution about long-term follow-up is very good, said Dr. Robin Blackstone, president-elect of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and a bariatric surgeon in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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If indeed his legendary father knew about the recurring rapes in his football team showers and only relied on an assistant to report it only to lower-level school officials, and only once -- and then never said another word of follow-up on the problem -- can we call that "a very high level of integrity, of morality?"
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Is the Media Whitewashing Joe Paterno? Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2012
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A paper Tuesday in JAMA reports long-term follow-up from the SELECT trial.
Alfred Neugut, M.D. Ph.D.: High-Dose Vitamins and Risk Alfred Neugut 2011
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If indeed his legendary father knew about the recurring rapes in his football team showers and only relied on an assistant to report it only to lower-level school officials, and only once -- and then never said another word of follow-up on the problem -- can we call that "a very high level of integrity, of morality?"
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Is the Media Whitewashing Joe Paterno? Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2012
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If indeed his legendary father knew about the recurring rapes in his football team showers and only relied on an assistant to report it only to lower-level school officials, and only once -- and then never said another word of follow-up on the problem -- can we call that "a very high level of integrity, of morality?"
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Is the Media Whitewashing Joe Paterno? Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2012
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If indeed his legendary father knew about the recurring rapes in his football team showers and only relied on an assistant to report it only to lower-level school officials, and only once -- and then never said another word of follow-up on the problem -- can we call that "a very high level of integrity, of morality?"
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Is the Media Whitewashing Joe Paterno? Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2012
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The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are based on long-term follow-up of participants in a large cancer-prevention trial known as Select.
Vitamin E Is Linked to Prostate Cancer Katherine Hobson 2011
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If indeed his legendary father knew about the recurring rapes in his football team showers and only relied on an assistant to report it only to lower-level school officials, and only once -- and then never said another word of follow-up on the problem -- can we call that "a very high level of integrity, of morality?"
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Is the Media Whitewashing Joe Paterno? Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2012
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If indeed his legendary father knew about the recurring rapes in his football team showers and only relied on an assistant to report it only to lower-level school officials, and only once -- and then never said another word of follow-up on the problem -- can we call that "a very high level of integrity, of morality?"
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Is the Media Whitewashing Joe Paterno? Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2012
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