FOLLOWED UP Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

followed up

verb

past tense of follow up

as in finished

to add to or continue (something) with something similar She followed up her first book with a sequel.

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Recent Examples of followed up Lange-Geise and Hartman agreed to pursue residential programs and followed up on referrals to seven residential schools in their home state and across the Northeast. — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 Two years later, Dolly and Steve followed up The Grass Is Blue with an album that went deeper into bluegrass and mountain music. — Martha Ackmann, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 The catcher followed up his first-inning double with a homer and a single, beating out an infield groundball for his third hit. — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 The residents then formed the Farley Road Neighborhood Coalition and followed up with an appeal to urge the town to reject the mosque’s permit modification. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026 It was followed up almost two decades later with the Diwata-1 microsatellite, which launched to the ISS on April 27, 2016. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Chelsea police have followed up on more than 20 tips from the public, but are still working to identify the individual who dropped off the skull. — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 Roden followed up with a double that plated Brooks Lee and gave Minnesota the lead for good. — ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 Nvidia has since followed up Ampere with its Hopper family of GPUs, the Blackwell lineup, and now the Rubin generation, which entered full production earlier this year. — CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for followed up

Verb

Jurors finished yet another day of deliberations in the trial of Lindsay Clancy without reaching a verdict.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
The interior, meanwhile, measures 35 sq m (376 sq ft) and is finished in wood, lending it a cozy cabin-like feel.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of finished

Verb

Chaparral flies autonomously Elroy Air completed a new series of autonomous, uncrewed flight tests of its Chaparral cargo aircraft under the US Department of Transportation and FAA’s eIPP project.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Google said the model excels at coding and on some benchmarks, its performance equalled that of larger models from rival AI companies, but completed them at a much lower cost.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of completed

Verb

Chinese manufacturers have expanded from areas including etching and deposition into ion implantation, inspection and metrology, according to Goldman.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
His father, Charles, had expanded the New Jersey real estate development business his grandfather, a Polish Holocaust survivor, had begun after starting out as a construction laborer.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of expanded

Verb

Globe lamps use enlarged, globe-shape bulbs to light up a space.

— Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2026
It was built between 1887 and 1895 and has been enlarged since then; its purpose was to eliminate the need to navigate around Jutland (peninsular Denmark).

— Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of enlarged

Verb

The Virginia case has reached discovery, allowing the challengers to seek documents and information about how the program was developed.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
Electron diffraction provided another way to monitor the crystal structures as defects developed.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026