How to Use follow-on in a Sentence
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Then there were some follow-on announcements that sort of played that down a little bit.
— Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023 -
And while the weight-loss studies did include far more women than men, many of the follow-on heart disease trials did not.
— Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024 -
About 100 of them received follow-on hacks that used the backdoor to install a second-stage payload.
— Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Hackers with access to source code can use it for follow-on attacks on other systems.
— Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024 -
As long as the top line continued to climb, follow-on venture funding likely would be available.
— Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023 -
The marines would land on Taiwan’s coastline and seize nearby ports that would allow follow-on ground forces to flow onto the island much more quickly than over beaches.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023 -
Zooming in on the investment behaviors in the region, there has been a shift to follow-on and later-stage deals, showing persistence on the part of investors.
— Mark Flickinger, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Since then, there has been a steady stream of new discoveries provided in both follow-on research and, in a few cases, attacks found in the wild from real-world threat actors.
— Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2023 -
Boomers have done a disservice to our follow-on generations.
— Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023 -
This funding led to investments in six new companies and five follow-on investments.
— Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024 -
This will be a follow-on to the very intense negotiations that took place in Jeddah previously.
— Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 30 July 2024 -
Two smaller, follow-on attacks targeted similar sites after the Houthis fired missiles and struck commercial ships in the Red Sea.
— Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024 -
During this step, the scammer checks balances to see if there’s enough profit potential for follow-on activities.
— Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024 -
After a few minutes with no follow-on attacks heard, the men, from Ukraine’s 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade, filtered back to the edge of the trench line, where younger troops instructed an older soldier how to use a vape pen.
— Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023 -
Those plans gained momentum a year ago, when the kingdom began working with advisers to study the feasibility of a follow-on offer.
— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 June 2024 -
Various other tie-ins and follow-on promotional efforts make this a top lister in the veritable product placement hall of fame for being in the right place at the right time.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023 -
Of the 46, 25 service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries, and two of the diagnoses were serious enough to require follow-on care in Germany.
— Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023 -
In the room were a group of investors representing perhaps a half-billion dollars of potential follow-on financing.
— Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2024 -
Globally, follow-on offers (when a company issues more shares to raise extra capital) are up about 22% compared to last year.
— Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023 -
When he was released, neither the civilian nor the military hospital communicated the discharge or follow-on care to Card's chain of command.
— Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 23 July 2024 -
Twenty-seven have returned to duty, while the 14 others continue to be evaluated with follow-on care.
— Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 Jan. 2024 -
This is also called a follow-on offering — but, confusingly, some people call it a secondary offering as well.
— The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023 -
The majority of the firm’s past investments were personally funded by Ryan, and those companies have gone on to raise more than $3 billion in follow-on capital.
— Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024 -
After gaining entry to the provider, attackers use their position in follow-on attacks targeting the customers.
— Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023 -
Critics wondered what the follow-on effects would be: Would schizophrenic and depressed people eventually receive a doctor’s help to die?
— Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024 -
Both sides were poised for follow-on talks in Oman, with the wheels of diplomacy greased by record-level Iranian oil exports, made possible by Washington’s averting its gaze instead of enforcing its own sanctions.
— Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2023 -
Those plans for writing larger, later-stage follow-on checks mark a shift for Venrock—a notable indicator of how venture capital firms are adapting to some of the downturn’s new realities.
— Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024 -
The commercial real estate market depends on that significantly so there will probably be a follow-on effect to that.
— Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 June 2023 -
The follow-on of more non-family-values-friendly stories might well have begun an unrecoverable spiral.
— WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023 -
While a federal appeals court in Washington is reviewing whether the president’s statements were undertaken in the scope of his job as president, Ms. Carroll brought a follow-on state lawsuit last year, which is set to go to trial in April.
— Sadie Gurman, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
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