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follow suit
Imitate or do as someone else has done, as in Bill decided to leave for the rest of the day, and Mary followed suit. This term comes from card games in which one must play a card from the same suit as the one led. [Mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
After his fellow Oprah alum, Dr. Mehmet Oz, ran for the Senate last year, McGraw shrugged off the notion that he would ever follow suit, saying he “doesn’t know enough about it.”
Other budget carriers then quickly followed suit, with the so-called flag carriers or established airlines then also doing so, at least on shorter flights.
Fran Kirby followed suit a week later, announcing her decision within an hour of England's defeat by world champions Spain late on Tuesday.
A study from 2016 estimated nearly 80% of large law enforcement agencies had acquired body-worn cameras, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and since then additional local agencies have followed suit.
Let’s hope Tony voters follow suit and give one of the other four best play nominees the award.
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