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follow along

Idioms  
  1. Move or proceed in accord or in unison with someone. For example, The children followed along with the song, or They followed along with the crowd.


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It’s a really fast-moving show, and if English is not your first language, like for my parents, then it’s quite hard to follow along.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Clouds of soap bubbles and cascading buckets of water follow, along with a coffee scrub and deeply moisturizing mask before a short sauna session to let everything absorb.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

Generally, when these cumulative breadth indicators are making new highs, SPX will follow along and do the same, eventually.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

Gold ladder in hand, Max, who has 8.5 million followers on TikTok, dedicated his award to his grandma in Ukraine who "has no electricity to follow along".

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

A roomful of immigrants smiled and shrugged at each other as we all made a lame attempt to follow along.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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