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Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
In May 2023, Quiñones rejected a call-up to the national team, however, and began playing for Mexico later that year.
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Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
Brady earned his first senior team call-up last year, then made his debut in May in the second half against Senegal.
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Russell Lewis,
NPR,
12 June 2026
Paños has also made 54 appearances for Spain’s national team, and was a two-time Women’s World Cup call-up (2015 and 2019).
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Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
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Yet neither performance earned him a call-up to a senior national team that was deep at forward.
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Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
In May 2023, Quiñones rejected a call-up to the national team, however, and began playing for Mexico later that year.
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Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
Brady earned his first senior team call-up last year, then made his debut in May in the second half against Senegal.
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Russell Lewis,
NPR,
12 June 2026
Paños has also made 54 appearances for Spain’s national team, and was a two-time Women’s World Cup call-up (2015 and 2019).
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Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
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Go where incentives already line up Instead of starting by attacking incumbents’ profit centers, successful disruptors look for segments where someone already benefits financially from lower costs and better outcomes.
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Sadly, travel plans didn’t line up.
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Kenya’s foreign minister flew to Moscow in March to demand that Russia stop recruiting Kenyans, describing the pipeline bringing Kenyan citizens to Russia as a human trafficking ring.
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Barcott is the co-founder and CEO of With Honor, an organization that recruits bipartisan veterans to run for office.
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Out of that number, 41 received criminal court summonses and were let go, while 15 were criminally charged and sent to court.
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Offenses like blowing red lights or running stop signs are currently handled via civil summonses.
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Their fix is to let the same model that does the reasoning also curate the knowledge, stored as human-readable notes and organized hierarchically with provenance and a lifecycle so stale plays decay rather than calcify.
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Where previous generations of artists organized themselves into schools, collectives, and cooperatives, their future counterparts will work alone or, if together, then polyphonously, their different voices kept distinctly identifiable, like family members at a Thanksgiving dinner discussion.
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The military also has maintained a strong relationship with the Eagle Scouts, whose members often enlist.
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European clubs saw Ronaldinho’s potential and were keen to enlist him.
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Fear becomes mobilization, and mobilization becomes demands for exclusion, detention, deportation or harsher border enforcement.
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On the left, labor unions and indigenous organizations increasingly believe aggressive street mobilization works.
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At Ojai, Lewis wistfully performed the solo prelude off in Libbey Park shrubbery as if a dallying forest spirit summoning ghosts of festivals past.
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That's right, I've been summoned to the Mothership.
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Students who enrolled in bachelor’s programs at 27 Texas colleges earned more over time than non-students, the study found.
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Aracely is an engineering student in San Diego, but she had been enrolled in school in Los Angeles until both her parents made the decision to self-deport.
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“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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