call out

verb

Definition of call outnext
as in to call up

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Recent Examples of call out Forty years on, Spy magazine is best remembered, not unjustly, as the first entity to call out Trump for his tackiness, villainy, and arrant idiocy. — David Kamp, Air Mail, 3 Oct. 2026 Earlier this month, Evercore ISI used a six-month measure to call out 115 S&P 500 stocks with negative beta, a list skewed toward energy, utilities and consumer staples. — Deena Zaidi,nick Wells, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026 Bringing in a specialized agency gave us an unvarnished, external perspective to audit our messaging, stress-test executive positioning and call out corporate fluff. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 21 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, protesters gathered outside the Philly stop to call out Sheeran for dropping Macklemore, over which fellow tour openers Finneas, Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham also exited the tour, along with Sheeran’s backing band Beoga. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for call out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for call out
  1. call up
  2. call in
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  • From there, enter 26-131 in the proceedings window/box (which is the first one shown on the page) and that should automatically call up the case of the early renewal filings for Disney’s ABC stations.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
  • Joey Meneses had an RBI single in his Athletics debut after being called up from the minors before the game.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 June 2026
Definition of call up
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  • On the earnings call in August, an analyst asked whether Airtable represents a long-term shift in the M&A strategy towards enterprise.
    — CJ Haddad, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Migladys Bermudez, an immigration attorney in southeast Michigan, remembers a call in May from a Peruvian woman detained at North Lake.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026
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