as in fulfilled
to carry through (as a process) to completion
you said you would put all of the files in order, but you didn't follow through with it
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for followed through (with)
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Congress has not always fulfilled its oversight responsibilities, and the differences between the last two administrations are a clear example of that.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026 -
An Orlando resident has completed his end of the plea bargain from a 2020 crash that killed three teens, and now the courts have fulfilled theirs by wiping his criminal record clean.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
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Some of the greatest arias in the genre, performed flawlessly by Jonathan Tetelman.—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Blue Origin New Glenn mission on payload Blue Ring’s first mission with initial injection into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), with additional services performed in Geostationary Orbit (GEO).—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Vasquez is proud of what the county has accomplished of late, including two new patrol officers, two new jail officers and money for overhauling the deadly County Road 100 S in this year’s budget.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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These come in different flavors, usually based on what a horse has already accomplished.—
Neil Greenberg,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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O’Keefe-Dunne also was blessed with a lovely singing voice, her sister said, and her uncle had wanted to send her to a vocal coach — the same vocal coach used by singer Johnny Mathis, who then had not yet achieved worldwide stardom.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
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So this has been a tactical demonstration of prowess, but has not achieved the strategic goals that the president announced.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 May 2026
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Chasing Horse was taken into custody in 2023 after Las Vegas police executed a search warrant at his home.—
Sean Mandell,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
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Federal and state law enforcement executed search warrants in Minnesota early on April 28 in connection with an ongoing fraud probe that has embroiled the state, officials said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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That same year Cindy's cousin testified before the Florida Legislature about the Death Penalty Reform Act, which in part sought to speed up executions to be carried out within five years of an inmate's conviction.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Police said the operation was carried out based on a tip-off.—
Lucas Lilieholm,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2026
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Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, nor did HUD officials.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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The two men then said Smollett paid them to stage the attack, and Smollett was charged with filing a false police report; the charges were later dropped after Smollett paid a fine and did community service.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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In the past few years, Russia, at an enormous cost to its own forces, made steady advances on the battlefield (most estimates suggest more than a million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the start of the conflict).—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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The results of that inquiry have never been made public.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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“Followed through (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/followed%20through%20%28with%29. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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