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Recent Examples of call (up)
Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
The existing law specified 30 as the maximum call-up age.
—ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
Recent call-up Hunter Haight’s initial shot was stopped by Blues goalie Joel Hofer via a leg pad save.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026
Each of those four competitors received their WWE call-up over the last year and are going to be competing at WrestleMania 42.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
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Noun
With Stanton tweaking his calf on Friday and not playing on Saturday and Sunday in Houston, word of Domínguez’s call-up broke Sunday night.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
The existing law specified 30 as the maximum call-up age.
—ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
Recent call-up Hunter Haight’s initial shot was stopped by Blues goalie Joel Hofer via a leg pad save.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026
Each of those four competitors received their WWE call-up over the last year and are going to be competing at WrestleMania 42.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
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Verb
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How do these biscuits line up with your expectations of a good biscuit?—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
12 May 2026
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Just getting two modules to line up on the uneven lunar surface will be a challenge, Garcia-Galan says.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
11 May 2026
Verb
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Longoria had been recruited from Valencia as sporting director only six months previously and, despite being only 34 years old, he was installed as president in Eyraud’s place.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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T cells normally recognize other cells that have been infected by a virus or bacterium, or are otherwise abnormal, and either destroy them or recruit other parts of the immune system to do so.—
Amber Dance,
ArsTechnica,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Warrants were issued for some of the individuals, and summonses for others.—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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New York police have issued several summonses and made some arrests at past SantaCons.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Her team quickly put together a plan to help coördinate repairs, secure new electrical generators, implement a triage system, and organize trainings for staff.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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Certain lower-risk administrative technologies are expressly excluded, including spreadsheets requiring human analysis, workflow management and routing tools, and systems that simply organize or summarize information without generating predictions or inferences.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Verb
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On top of adding Toph to their ranks, Aang and his gang will also be working to enlist more allies in the war being waged by the Fire Nation.—
Maira Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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The thirty-five-year-old New York State assemblyman Alex Bores, a candidate in the pullulating Democratic primary for New York’s Twelfth Congressional District, opted instead to enlist a chatbot.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Since then, the Kremlin has stayed clear of announcing any new mobilization efforts.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
12 May 2026
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Meanwhile, ordinary Russians have grappled with high inflation caused by military mobilizations and defense production as well as the Kremlin’s crackdown on internet access to restrict the flow of grim news on the economy and war.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
Verb
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Pakistan summoned a senior Afghan diplomat on Monday to lodge a formal protest over a suicide attack in the country's northwest, bordering Afghanistan, that killed 15 police officers.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 May 2026
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Philippine police officials have summoned Dela Rosa to appear before them for an investigation into his role in the Duterte-era killings.—
Jim Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
Verb
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There are 55 youth enrolled this year, but next year the club hopes for 80 members, according to Wofford.—
Janice Neumann,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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The college enrolls nearly 15,000 degree-seeking students.—
Lucy Marques,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2026
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“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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