follow through (with)

verb

Definition of follow through (with)next
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for follow through (with)
  1. fulfill
  2. perform
  3. execute
  4. achieve
  5. go through
  6. do
  7. put through
  8. carry out
Verb
  • This is an issue because as gaming hardware improves in graphical potency, the requirements to fulfill that increase logarithmically.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Jason Momoa is about to fulfill one of his lifelong comic book dreams.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of fulfill
Verb
  • In a follow-up study, wine and coffee experts performed just as badly as novices when given non-wine and non-coffee smells, suggesting the Jahai’s enhanced abilities aren’t simply a result of practice in attending to aromas.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Vistra has more than tripled in value to become the second best performing stock in the S & P 500 this year, outpacing chip powerhouse Nvidia and trailing only Palantir Technologies .
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of perform
Verb
  • The Tar Heel State has not executed a death row inmate since 2006.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Investigators are probing whether the suspect acted alone or had help from others in planning and executing the attack, Jason Williams, the district attorney of Orleans Parish, which includes New Orleans, told ABC News.
    Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of execute
Verb
  • Berkshire achieved the lofty returns even as stopped buying back its own stock this year.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Lakers LeBron James achieves another NBA record in Lakers’ win over Kings Dec. 19, 2024 To do it again?
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of achieve
Verb
  • The solution, saturated with gold, has to go through another chemical process to make the gold solid again.
    Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Once a house has gone through foreclosure, is a former homeowner still on the hook for property taxes?
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of go through
Verb
  • Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania developed a model based on network theory to do just that, describing their work in a February paper published in the journal Physical Review Research.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
  • From its deployment of renewable energy infrastructure to the planting of some 600 million trees, doing and being seen to be doing green things is intended to put Kyiv on the same environmental page as Brussels.
    David Vetter, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of do
Verb
  • Atayde is also keen to give credit to his female co-star, Montes, who was also put through her paces in both the shooting and the preparation.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
  • After being put through the wringer for much of the film's two-hour-plus runtime by the sadistic, supernatural Smile Entity, pop superstar Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) is losing her grip on reality.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of put through
Verb
  • Over 740 removal flights to 160-plus countries have been carried out since the rule was introduced.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Here that same strategy is carried out in the living room by placing the sofa in front of a bookshelf.
    Katharina Schwarze, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of carry out
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