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noun

followup

a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work

In a sentence

Six example sentences with followup, each labelled with its topic.

  • The band's followup arrived four years later and answered every question the debut album had deliberately left open.

    Music

  • Studios greenlit a followup before the first picture had even finished its opening weekend in wide release.

    Movies

  • Her followup novel used the same coastal village but a narrator twenty years older, and reviewers preferred it.

    Literature

  • The followup study doubled the sample size and found the original effect shrank to half its reported size.

    Science

  • The studio's followup kept the first game's engine but replaced the desert with a rain-soaked city.

    Gaming

  • Their followup product reused the payment rails of the first app and reached a million users in five months.

    Startups

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