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The six o’clock news follows our show.
In the weeks that followed the situation was very tense.
The wedding will be followed by a reception.
We had soup followed by lasagna and salad.
There’s apple pie and ice cream to follow.
There followed seven months of hard negotiations.
I couldn’t follow what Professor Hope was saying.
I’m sorry, I don’t quite follow you.
Their system is pretty easy to follow.
She decided not to follow her mother into banking.
The U.S. may follow Canada’s example by banning these products.
Other students followed her lead and boycotted classes.
They began to offer takeout food, and other restaurants followed suit.
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a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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