How to Use follow-on in a Sentence

follow-on

adjective

• In the room were a group of investors representing perhaps a half-billion dollars of potential follow-on financing.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2024
• Those plans gained momentum a year ago, when the kingdom began working with advisers to study the feasibility of a follow-on offer.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 June 2024
• Then there were some follow-on announcements that sort of played that down a little bit.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
• And while the weight-loss studies did include far more women than men, many of the follow-on heart disease trials did not.
  — Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• About 100 of them received follow-on hacks that used the backdoor to install a second-stage payload.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• Hackers with access to source code can use it for follow-on attacks on other systems.
  — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• As long as the top line continued to climb, follow-on venture funding likely would be available.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
• The marines would land on Taiwan’s coastline and seize nearby ports that would allow follow-on ground forces to flow onto the island much more quickly than over beaches.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• Zooming in on the investment behaviors in the region, there has been a shift to follow-on and later-stage deals, showing persistence on the part of investors.
  — Mark Flickinger, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Since then, there has been a steady stream of new discoveries provided in both follow-on research and, in a few cases, attacks found in the wild from real-world threat actors.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2023
• Boomers have done a disservice to our follow-on generations.
  — Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023
• This funding led to investments in six new companies and five follow-on investments.
  — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Two smaller, follow-on attacks targeted similar sites after the Houthis fired missiles and struck commercial ships in the Red Sea.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
• During this step, the scammer checks balances to see if there’s enough profit potential for follow-on activities.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
• After a few minutes with no follow-on attacks heard, the men, from Ukraine’s 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade, filtered back to the edge of the trench line, where younger troops instructed an older soldier how to use a vape pen.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Various other tie-ins and follow-on promotional efforts make this a top lister in the veritable product placement hall of fame for being in the right place at the right time.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Of the 46, 25 service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries, and two of the diagnoses were serious enough to require follow-on care in Germany.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
• Globally, follow-on offers (when a company issues more shares to raise extra capital) are up about 22% compared to last year.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• Twenty-seven have returned to duty, while the 14 others continue to be evaluated with follow-on care.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 Jan. 2024
• This is also called a follow-on offering — but, confusingly, some people call it a secondary offering as well.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The majority of the firm’s past investments were personally funded by Ryan, and those companies have gone on to raise more than $3 billion in follow-on capital.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
• After gaining entry to the provider, attackers use their position in follow-on attacks targeting the customers.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023
• Critics wondered what the follow-on effects would be: Would schizophrenic and depressed people eventually receive a doctor’s help to die?
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Both sides were poised for follow-on talks in Oman, with the wheels of diplomacy greased by record-level Iranian oil exports, made possible by Washington’s averting its gaze instead of enforcing its own sanctions.
  — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2023
• Those plans for writing larger, later-stage follow-on checks mark a shift for Venrock—a notable indicator of how venture capital firms are adapting to some of the downturn’s new realities.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
• The commercial real estate market depends on that significantly so there will probably be a follow-on effect to that.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 June 2023
• The follow-on of more non-family-values-friendly stories might well have begun an unrecoverable spiral.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• While a federal appeals court in Washington is reviewing whether the president’s statements were undertaken in the scope of his job as president, Ms. Carroll brought a follow-on state lawsuit last year, which is set to go to trial in April.
  — Sadie Gurman, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
• The plan is to invest in up to eight companies with this first fund, according to managing director Naveen Krishnan, while reserving some capital for follow-on investments in those companies.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
• Ten federal agencies and about 100 private companies received follow-on payloads that installed backdoors for use in espionage.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 May 2023

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024