How to Use follow-on in a Sentence

follow-on

adjective
  • And some of the investments were follow-on rounds for the same companies.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Zoom in: To date, the fund has backed nine startups as both lead and follow-on, writing first checks of $2 million to $10 million for seed through Series B raises.
    — Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Taking the pilot out of the cockpit will come as a follow-on certification project.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
  • The first 3-5 years are for making new investments, and the rest is for follow-on investments and (hopefully) exits.
    — Melinda Elmborg, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • But in many cases, once the investment is made, follow-on projects accelerate.
    — Maggie Laird, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • The ability to sell follow-on services or support after the initial project is complete creates long-term revenue streams and adds depth to the partnership.
    — Chris Barbin, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • This will be a follow-on to the very intense negotiations that took place in Jeddah previously.
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • Some of the follow-on articles bought the misinformation hook, line, and sinker, repeating incorrectly that the fall of RSA was upon us.
    — Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 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
  • Smith is one of millions of American women who are at high risk for breast cancer but whose insurance does not cover the costs of follow-on screenings needed to detect the disease.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The follow-on will bundle these with a handful of additional qubits that can produce quantum states that are needed for some operations.
    — ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When he was released, neither the civilian nor the military hospital communicated the discharge or follow-on care to Card's chain of command.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 23 July 2024
  • Research reveals a troubling paradox: While female investors are more likely to back female founders, startups that raised their first round exclusively from women VCs were half as likely to secure follow-on funding.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025

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