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Followed in turn by recriminations, threats, guilt and further disengagement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Followed by another, followed by a hastily abandoned chat.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

She followed it up with four sequels: “Ripley Under Ground” in 1970; “Ripley’s Game” in 1974; “The Boy Who Followed Ripley” in 1980; and “Ripley Under Water” in 1991.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

Followed by breaking pitches low and away, specifically sliders to get him to chase.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2023

Followed by dozens of masons and carpenters, as if she had contracted her husband’s hallucinating fever, Úrsula fixed the position of light and heat and distributed space without the least sense of its limitations.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez