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Recent Examples of call (up)
Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2026
Matthews has given up two runs in 13 innings since his call-up, and Ober turned in his first-career complete game shutout on the last homestand.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 21 May 2026
Fatal Influence and the Cargill trio have been two parallel SmackDown storylines feeding the same talent pool since Jacy Jayne's main roster call-up sparked the Ripley feud, and this six-woman tag pulls both threads onto the same card.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
Robbie Earle scored their first-ever goal at the tournament after choosing to represent the island of his parents’ birth rather than continue to wait for an England call-up that never came.
—Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
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Noun
The Raw roster saw a few call-ups in the weeks before WrestleMania 42 and the days that came after.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2026
Matthews has given up two runs in 13 innings since his call-up, and Ober turned in his first-career complete game shutout on the last homestand.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 21 May 2026
Fatal Influence and the Cargill trio have been two parallel SmackDown storylines feeding the same talent pool since Jacy Jayne's main roster call-up sparked the Ripley feud, and this six-woman tag pulls both threads onto the same card.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
Robbie Earle scored their first-ever goal at the tournament after choosing to represent the island of his parents’ birth rather than continue to wait for an England call-up that never came.
—Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
Verb
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Offensively, though, is where Arraez and the Padres may line up.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2026
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The way things line up, the Jays are set to face just one lefty in their next seven games.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
Verb
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Lane and other higher education experts said institutions must focus on recruiting and catering to non-traditional college students.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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They were recruited via a popular online research aid website known as CloudResearch and paid $100 each for participating in and completing the study.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Noun
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In August 2015, Raymond filed a lawsuit with 11 other police officers, claiming the NYPD’s requirements for officers to meet numerical quotas for arrests and court summonses each month broke state law and went against the the 14th Amendment against racial discrimination.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2026
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Warrants were issued for some of the individuals, and summonses for others.—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
Verb
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In her 2008 work Mirror Play, San Francisco Poets Theatre Beloved’s Carla Harryman employs a field of speakers as an engine for organizing meaning between interior perception and exterior reality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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The organizing body is the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), in association with the Taipei Computer Association (TCA).—
John Burek,
PC Magazine,
29 May 2026
Verb
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The report, dated May 18, concluded with a request by Town Marshal Robert Byrd for Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter to enlist the Indiana State Police to investigate, which Carter did Monday.—
Christin Lazerus,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
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To prevent them, many enlist the help of mothballs.—
Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
24 May 2026
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That mobilization has triggered new spasms of anxiety among the league’s old-school media partners.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
2 June 2026
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Public education and grassroots mobilization can change that, and this belief is what drove me to create End the Wait.—
Randy Simpkins,
Boston Herald,
2 June 2026
Verb
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The distance between your villa and dinner or your villa and the spa, however, can be long–but your butler can summon a golf cart to make getting around much easier.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Five others escaped the cave’s narrow tunnels after rescue efforts by international experts summoned to the perilous cave in central Laos.—
Kocha Olarn,
CNN Money,
1 June 2026
Verb
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Last year, a university in southern China launched a specialized barbecue school to train grilling experts for the booming night food economy, enrolling only 30 students from more than 4,000 applicants — an acceptance ratio that rivals those of some of China’s most elite university programs.—
Erin Tan,
NBC news,
3 June 2026
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Eventually, Willow hopes to enroll in the theater program at either Carnegie Mellon University or the University of Michigan.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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