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Follow up

verb

Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue. Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, go through, implement, put through. "He implemented a new economic plan" , "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"

Increase the effectiveness or success of by further action.

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"Follow up" Quotes from Famous Books

... themselves out of her in spite of her shyness, but which she could not follow up by more than ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII • various

... whole plan had gone astray from the beginning. With an optimism which was splendid in fighting-men and costly in the High Command, our men had attacked positions of enormous strength—held by an enemy in the full height of his power—without sufficient troops in reserve to follow up and support the initial attack, to consolidate the ground, and resist inevitable counter-attacks. What reserves the Commander-in-Chief had he held "in his own hand" too ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... she might bring out, as between them, something more specific. It made her but feel the more sharply how the specific, in almost any direction, was utterly forbidden her—how the use of it would be, for all the world, like undoing the leash of a dog eager to follow up a scent. It would come out, the specific, where the dog would come out; would run to earth, somehow, the truth—for she was believing herself in relation to the truth!—at which she mustn't so much as indirectly point. Such, at any rate, was the fashion in which her passionate ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

... way. I will follow up this scheme, and see what I can find out. Jay Gardiner will be out of the city for a few days. I will see his office attendant—he does not know me—and will never be able to recognize me again the way I shall disguise myself, and I will learn from him what young lady the doctor ...

— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey

... It was to follow up the line thus opened to him that he had attached himself with so much zeal to his landlord, unsympathetic as such a man as Sebastian Dundas must needs be to a metaphysical and superstitious student of humanity, a born detective, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

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