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noun

follow-up

a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work

In a sentence

Six example sentences with follow-up, each labelled with its topic.

  • The follow-up returns to the same lighthouse ten years later, using the crew and the ending of the first film.

    Movies

  • Her follow-up extended the original survey to eight hundred sites, confirming the pattern the smaller study had only hinted at.

    Science

  • The 2019 trial was promising, and the follow-up tested the same treatment in older patients over a longer period.

    Medicine

  • The band's follow-up kept the same producer and the same studio, yet it sounds nothing like the debut.

    Music

  • The follow-up picks up the detective a year after the first novel, older and less sure of his instincts.

    Literature

  • The studio's follow-up reuses the first game's engine and map but adds a crafting system players had begged for.

    Gaming

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