How to Use follow-on in a Sentence
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The sailor was rescued safely and left the ship for follow-on care.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
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Now, there’s some logical follow-on to that.
—Alex Crippen, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
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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
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And some of the investments were follow-on rounds for the same companies.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
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Hackers with access to source code can use it for follow-on attacks on other systems.
—Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
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Fiber is emerging as a follow-on to protein's rise in consumer attention.
—Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
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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
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And the follow-on projects Koech describes exist only on paper.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
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The military went back in, reportedly with a follow-on strike.
—CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
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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
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That stint lasted two years, with a follow-on of two years in 2018 and 2019.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Mar. 2026
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Any follow-on messages will be added to the context window and sent back as additional tokens.
—Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
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But in many cases, once the investment is made, follow-on projects accelerate.
—Maggie Laird, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Some lawmakers have questioned whether that follow-on strike constituted a war crime.
—CBS News, 31 May 2026
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Some lawmakers questioned whether the follow-on strike constituted a war crime.
—CBS News, 29 May 2026
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But companies don’t invest in follow-on research based solely on chemistry.
—Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
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Taking the pilot out of the cockpit will come as a follow-on certification project.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
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The pilot is in stable condition and receiving follow-on care.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
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Its mission is to jam radars, blind missile batteries, and create corridors for follow-on forces.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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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
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This funding led to investments in six new companies and five follow-on investments.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
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When two people survived, the military went back in, reportedly, with a follow-on strike.
—CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
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In at least one instance, survivors have been killed in follow-on strikes, which experts have said is at odds with military law and rules of engagement.
—ABC News, 18 June 2026
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Google has committed up to $40 billion in follow-on investment.
—Pranay Ahlawat, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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Republicans have defended the follow-on strike, arguing the survivors may have still been in the fight.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
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Machines deemed important would then receive follow-on malware that backdoored the system.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
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The follow-on console ports of these arcade games are sadly not included, as this is meant as a purely arcade game collection.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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The contract does not identify a program of record, deployment timeline, or follow-on testing plans.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
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Legal experts have said the follow-on strike may have been unlawful because striking shipwrecked sailors is considered out of line with laws of war.
—Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
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That in turn has generated $161 million in follow-on funding.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
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