come after

phrasal verb

came after; come after; coming after; comes after

: to chase (someone) : to try to find or capture (someone you want to hurt or punish)

They're worried that the government might be coming after them.

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More than half of that came in the fourth quarter, after the Fed had begun to cut interest rates, with the two biggest weeks coming after Election Day in November and the most recent Fed rate cut in December. —

Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Jan. 2025 The extradition comes after the Minister of Justice of Montenegro, Bojan Božović, signed the order to have the Terraform Labs co-founder extradited to the U.S. on Friday. —

Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024 The county's first Sam's Club comes after similar membership store openings in Mt. Juliet — Costco in June 2024 and B.J.'s Wholesale Club in December 2023. —

Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2024 His presidential inauguration came after the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. —

Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for come after