call (off or out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (off or out)
Verb
  • But no longer, according to a new analysis, which proclaims that the long American sellers’ market has finally ended.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • Campaign ​posters proclaimed only 10% of incomers were needed skilled workers and that asylum seekers were more likely to be rapists.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • Scott Wagers, a recipient of 10 Little Caesars pizzas that were given out on behalf of CHAM Deliverance Ministry, a local charity that feeds the homeless, recalled being shocked that the athlete showed up to deliver the food himself.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
  • Many more awards were given out to cookbook authors, video producers, podcasters and other journalists.
    General Manager, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • The most recent fares were advertised on the cruise’s website as starting at $1,300 per person, with some activities included while others cost extra.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • The Athletic has been told that is influenced by strict limits, regulated by the communications services watchdog OFCOM, on how many adverts and how many total minutes of advertising ITV can show.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • Video posted to social media showed the plane on its side and smashed into a highway barrier as the tail was ripped from the fuselage.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
  • In a joint statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday, the Defiance County Sheriff's Office and the Defiance County Prosecutor's Office said the boy died in an accidental shooting on Saturday.
    Michael Guise, CBS News, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • Especially Melanie, who was crying her foundation off before the vote was even announced.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 June 2026
  • His wife, Alicia Brown, posted a video on her verified Instagram page Sunday where she is seen crying while revealing what appears to be multiple stitches above and below her left eyebrow.
    Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and his nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, Nation, Boston Globe, and elsewhere.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • It’s composed largely of her brilliant, almost painfully intimate essays, originally published in The New Yorker, about the fraught dynamics between mothers and daughters.
    Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • Now, more than three months after he was killed at the start of the US-Israeli war, the date of his burial has been announced.
    Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
  • The San Francisco 49ers, for whom Smith had a terrific rookie season, issued a statement announcing his passing on Saturday afternoon.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • Early Monday morning, a woman in the Old Mammoth area heard her dogs barking outside of her home and soon discovered a roughly 70-pound, 17-month-old black bear fighting a dog.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Instead, the party carries all the threat of a barking lap dog.
    Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 3 June 2026
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“Call (off or out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28off%20or%20out%29. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.

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