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• But the show’s second act can’t follow up on all the ideas thrown out in the first.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
• Co-host George Stephanopoulos had to follow up on the plane point, however.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
• Did the Fed’s board fail to follow up on noted weaknesses?
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The team of nieces, none of whom live in Saskatoon, have been making frequent visits there for years to follow up on Aunt Alex’s case.
  — Anna Turning, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2024
• The chief said he’s also gotten a call from the National Weather Service to follow up on the event.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 July 2024
• Police noted on April 20 that the deadline passed and there appeared to be nothing to follow up on.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
• Commit to making one phone call to one older person who lives alone and follow up on it.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• In baseball, Stanford will be looking to follow up on last year's trip to the College World Series.
  — Paul Newberry, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
• The researchers wanted to follow up on that earlier work to see what factors might drive RNA editing in cephalopods.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 8 June 2023
• There are plenty of promising places left for the show to go in the event that FX gives it a second season to follow up on the finale’s assorted cliffhangers.
  — Time, 8 Dec. 2022
• Detectives ignored and failed to follow up on leads that suggested Solorio was not their man.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• However, Peterson's attorney at the time, who is no longer involved with the case, did not follow up on the answer, the judge said.
  — Michael Lundin, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
• The answer is to follow up on these accusations, find their sources and judge the situation on the merits alone.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• The attorneys suggested police hadn’t done enough to follow up on those leads.
  — al, 3 Oct. 2022
• Hudak told the Herald that Castro reported the incident to him about a week later and that by then, there wasn’t much to follow up on.
  — Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• Months have passed since the work began, so The Enquirer wanted to follow up on behalf of travelers.
  — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
• There’s also the question of how and when Adidas will attempt to follow up on its current sneaker hits and keep its fashion buzz.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 June 2024
• Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq were asked by the league to follow up on developments.
  — Mohamed Wagdy and Kareem Chehayeb, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq were asked by the league to follow up on developments.
  — Mohamed Wagdy and Kareem Chehayeb, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
• Among them: Police failed to follow up on a social media flyer about Brooklyn Day.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• As part of the settlement, the agency must implement new policies and software to better track and follow up on reports of abuse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Detective Blanke said he got assigned to the case in 2018, shortly after the social media campaign began, to follow up on the new tips that had come in.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
• Durbin and Blumenthal said the GAO inquiry would follow up on a similar probe in 2011 that called for changes to better protect patients.
  — Haajrah Gilani, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
• The group said that the university failed to follow up on many complaints, and the consequences for some of those actions was insufficient.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 26 June 2024
• That’s a hot commodity, and not easy to get, but the team is planning to follow up on their observations as soon as possible.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• Patrons are free to schedule multiple appointments with the center to follow up on leads.
  — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Coad said threat assessment teams that follow up on and evaluate any threat have been assembled at each school, as required by state law.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2022
• About 90% of patients in the Heart Safe Motherhood program follow up on requested screenings, a compliance rate that’s the same for Black and white patients.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• Investors are also keen to know how Mattel will follow up on the Barbie box office success with upcoming films based on the toy maker’s IP.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
• Family members are left on their own to comb through clues and follow up on leads in desperate efforts to find their loved ones — or, perhaps, receive some closure.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega César Rodríguez, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024