as in to fulfil
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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This not only fulfills regulatory requirements but also reassures investors about the company's commitment to safeguarding assets and information.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025 -
Ultimately, hundreds of thousands of potential buyers chose not to fulfill their orders, and many of them could have had reasons related to the EV's design flaws.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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This has forced the library system to pay a contractor $1,500 per month to power-wash the area outside the branch twice a week during the morning hours after previously relying on in-house personnel to perform the task.—
Joseph Flaherty,
Arkansas Online,
23 May 2025
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The subjects could only perform those tasks while wearing the special contact lenses.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2025
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Action: Recommending or autonomously executing optimal decisions based on those insights Think of intelligence as foresight, like knowing product demand will spike next week.—
Keith Moore,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Vulnerabilities result from programming errors found in webserver software that, when exploited, allow attackers to execute malicious code in the browsers of people visiting an affected website.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2025
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Gerry was a terrific public servant who achieved much.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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The first two episodes of season 2 premiered on Hulu on May 21. Nicole Kidman crafts an unsettling yet chic lead in Nine Perfect Strangers, the 2021 Hulu series about a wellness guru with questionable means of achieving healthfulness and fulfillment.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
21 May 2025
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Detectives on Saturday were still going through the Soho home, bringing out large paper evidence bags.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
24 May 2025
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Like many of those apprehended this week, Fonseca Solorzano arrived in the United States from Honduras via CPB One, an application set up during the Biden administration that provided asylum seekers a way to enter the country legally after going through a background check.—
Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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But then, proving the impossible possible is what these films have done from the start.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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The pair's journey on Teen Mom has shown what a year of struggling to get pregnant did to Cheyenne and Zach, both as individuals and as a married couple.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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But seed oils are put through a process where they are pressed, bleached, heated, processed with solvents and highly refined, which can strip them of their nutritional value.—
Rona Berg,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Staff at Old Trafford, Carrington and the club’s London office are currently being put through a second round of redundancies in the space of a year, which could, once complete, result in as many as 450 job losses since Ratcliffe’s arrival.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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Subcommittee members are expected to explore how sanctuary policies, local non-cooperation, and political activism may be interfering with the agency’s ability to carry out its mission.—
Heather Hunter,
The Washington Examiner,
19 May 2025
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The Trump administration is carrying out a hard-line immigration policy to remove millions of undocumented immigrants.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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“Follow through (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/follow%20through%20%28with%29. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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