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noun

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Recent Examples of call (up)
Noun
His stuff was considered by many to be the best in the minors prior to his call-up last week. Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025 Voices Commentary: Angel City takes stand against immigration raids as others stay silent June 17, 2025 In 13 months, Hayes has given 27 players their first call-up to the senior national team. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025 The other Colorado native who had a shot at a call-up was Gotham FC midfielder Jaelin Howell. Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 18 June 2025 Thrown right into the fire after getting the call-up from Triple-A Syracuse, Kranick saw the game turn upside down after Danny Jansen capped the six-run frame with with a two-run homer that made the score 7-5. Fiifi Frimpong, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for call (up)
Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
Verb
  • But Talamo and her colleagues claim that original date didn’t line up well with the ages of other nearby artifacts from the same layer of the cave floor.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2025
  • Despite everything lining up perfectly, June 26th, unfortunately, wasn’t the day for sub-4 to manifest itself.
    Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • Brad Pitt stars as Sonny Hayes, a once-promising driver who is recruited to help his friend and former driver, Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), who is in danger of being ousted by the board of his racing team.
    Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 26 June 2025
  • The researchers recruited 34 adults who’d had chronic, nonspecific LBP for more than three months and randomly divided them into two groups.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Of those taken into custody, 11 were given summonses, cops said.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 24 June 2025
  • A question of intent About 10 months later, troopers returned to Whittier and issued court summonses to Pese, eight other relatives and one man who was not related but came from the same American Samoa village as Pese.
    Mark Thiessen, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
Verb
  • Organizations that fund long-term capabilities, organize around value streams and empower cross-functional product teams consistently deliver results faster and with greater impact.
    Alex Adamopoulos, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Lucile Bluford Day in KC The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated - Beta Omega Chapter is organizing events in honor of Bluford on Tuesday at the Kansas City Public Library.
    Ramal Nasim, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Jin was the first to enlist in December 2022 and the first to be discharged last June.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
  • Collaborative decks, like the Slow Holler tarot, enlist dozens of artists from varied regional and marginalized identities to put their own spin on iconic images.
    John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Legal experts said Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard over the objections of a state’s governor was highly unusual, and based on laws whose language could be interpreted in different ways.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2025
  • Protests over federal immigration enforcement raids and President Trump's mobilization of the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles continue to spread nationwide.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • Initially, DeSales University professor Marie Bolger had also been summoned to court, but her name was removed from a later filing.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
  • Surprisingly, the Front Man summons Gi-hun and offers him a proposition.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • The Trump administration has already frozen more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard, threatened to rescind its tax-exempt status and gone after the university's ability to enroll foreign students.
    Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 30 June 2025
  • And even borrowers who could benefit from ICR may not be able to enroll quickly enough – there is a 1.5 million application backlog for IDR applications, with wide variability in processing times.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025

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“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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