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Recent Examples of call (up)
Chris Branch, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Outfielder Stone Garrett even used the site to get a big league call-up.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Practice squad call-up Leonard Taylor III nearly wrestled the QB to the turf but couldn’t hold on.
—Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
The initial call-up of more than 4,000 service members had dwindled to several hundred by late October, with roughly 100 still stationed in the area.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Any call-up or trade will immediately come with a reference to this guide, even years down the line.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Outfielder Stone Garrett even used the site to get a big league call-up.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Practice squad call-up Leonard Taylor III nearly wrestled the QB to the turf but couldn’t hold on.
—Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
The initial call-up of more than 4,000 service members had dwindled to several hundred by late October, with roughly 100 still stationed in the area.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
Verb
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After a run of three losses in four fights, Tszyu (26-3, 18 KOs) defeated Anthony Velazquez by unanimous decision in December, and reportedly will line up another fight prior to fighting Spence.—
SportsDay Staff,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
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And, unlike with apples — a Honeycrisp and a Red Delicious are easy to line up side by side — medical services are hard to compare.—
Darius Tahir,
NPR,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The band’s follow-up, 2002’s Away from the Sun, found Arnold shifting strictly to vocalist, with drummer Josh Freese recruited for that multiplatinum LP.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2026
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Stanford recruited Jones aggressively to stay for a fifth year when other programs tried to lure him into the transfer portal after his senior season.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The summonses for Musk and Yaccarino and the search at the X office were related to an investigation launched in January 2025 over complaints about how X's algorithm recommends content to users and gathers data, the prosecutor's office said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
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The department started issuing warnings for noncompliant buildings last April but was only sending summonses to those that had more than 30 apartments and exceeded four warnings.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The $720-million structure will serve as the new home for LACMA’s permanent collection with 90 exhibition galleries organized thematically rather than by medium or chronology.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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More people have to organize to ensure that their communities understand what the votes actually count towards.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Epstein first tried to enlist the help of his attorneys in his bid for clemency, but that quickly fell flat.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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Since the election, however, about half a dozen other companies have rushed to enlist him as an adviser or director.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Celebrating box-office performance as proof of cultural value mistakes mobilization for meaning.—
Debbie Millman,
Time,
4 Feb. 2026
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The anti-ICE mobilization that unfolded around the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last week mirrored the methods used to overthrow governments and spark bloody revolutions around the globe, according to a Fox News Digital analysis.—
Asra Q. Nomani , Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The Puerto Rican singer surrounded himself with men and women cutting down the stalks, summoning the territory’s centuries-long colonization, in which sugar played a central role.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
9 Feb. 2026
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Galen had been summoned, however, to help fight a different kind of invader.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Archdiocese educators will help affected OLH families enroll in the Catholic schools still left in the area while helping teachers and staff find employment at other schools in the archdiocese.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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Those who are automatically re-enrolled but fail to pay their insurance bills get a grace period of three months before their coverage is terminated.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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