Following and Order

Following

Following noun - A body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person.

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Order and following are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Order" instead the word "Following" as a noun or an adjective or an adverb.

Nearby Words: follow, follower, followed

Order noun - The way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another.

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Following and order are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Following" instead the word "Order" as a noun or an adjective or an adverb.

Nearby Words: ordered, orderly, ordering, orderliness

good	good following	good order
high	high following	high order
certain	certain following	certain order
current	current following	current order
Other adjectives: small, actual, entire, real, large, titular.

Damages is level 5, due to the Anachronic Order and following the case instead of a Monster of the Week format.

Source: Sliding Scale of Continuity
In Making Money, one gets fed up with his employer being a merely polite, socially awkward scientist rather than a mad one, and finally manages to goad him into giving a morally ambiguous order and following it with an Evil Laugh.

Source: Servant Race
Following The Adversary means you're physically incapable of Just Following Orders, and don't think he'll let you off easily if you spurn the shadows in order to work for The Man.

Source: Satan

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