as follows

Idioms  

1. What comes next, usually in the form of a list. For example, Mary planned her day as follows: returning all phone calls; a department meeting; lunch with her colleagues; library research. This term is always put in the singular (“follows”) even though it applies to numerous items and is frequently followed by a colon. It was first recorded in 1548.

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Example Sentences

The questions were as follows: How much of the time do you feel you lack companionship?,

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

Garcia summed up the AI threats and opportunities to workers and investors as follows: “If an AI agent can do it for you, a company’s competitive edge was never its technology. It was your laziness.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

The dates for the knockout phase are as follows:

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Discovery, whose stock has taken off because the company is going through a widely discussed sale process, the names were as follows, through midday on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

His report, in its essential part, ran as follows: Sole survivor could shed no light on reasons for sinking ol' 'Tsimt- sum.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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