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Recent Examples of call (up)
Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Listen to this article Trenton Brooks continues to strengthen his case for a call-up.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
This whirlwind six-month period, characterized by championship glory and a setback, has significantly impacted her trajectory, likely delaying any potential post-WrestleMania main roster call-up.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Putin on Monday ordered a regular biannual call-up intended to draft 160,000 conscripts for a one-year tour of compulsory military service.
—The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Sunday’s game was his fourth in five days, including a start for AHL Cleveland last Wednesday before his call-up.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Listen to this article Trenton Brooks continues to strengthen his case for a call-up.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
This whirlwind six-month period, characterized by championship glory and a setback, has significantly impacted her trajectory, likely delaying any potential post-WrestleMania main roster call-up.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Putin on Monday ordered a regular biannual call-up intended to draft 160,000 conscripts for a one-year tour of compulsory military service.
—The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
Verb
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Fellow dictatorships including Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, and Iran lined up behind Maduro while Gonzalez fled the country during the reign of state terror against dissidents that followed the election.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Apr. 2025
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The next day, on Holy Saturday, families lined up for meals around the church block.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
Verb
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He's recruited by old friend Ruben (Javier Bardem) to join his underdog Formula 1 race team and tapped to mentor a rookie prodigy (Damson Idris).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Bech became the sixth LSU WR that Joseph recruited in his five seasons in Baton Rouge picked in the top 60.—
Bruce Feldman,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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The 47-year-old driver was issued several summonses including possessing an open alcohol in a motor vehicle and DWI, according to officials.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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She was given two pink-colored summonses by the New York Police Department — one for obstructing pedestrian traffic and the other for failure to disperse — before being released.—
Shimon Prokupecz,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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From organizing food drives to donating recycling proceeds to global projects, EOLO is proof that small acts can scale.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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The forty-three students in Tate’s charge visited all the city’s major sites, plus some often overlooked on school trips organized by white teachers: Frederick Douglass’s house, Miner Teachers College, and the Howard University campus that would later become Tate’s academic home.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Apr. 2025
Verb
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In recent months, ICE has concentrated on apprehending people far above the U.S.-Mexico border; used military planes as a tool of deportation; outsourced detention to third parties, including private prisons and sovereign nations like El Salvador; and enlisted wartime law to bypass due process.—
Benjamin Waddell,
Denver Post,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Cure have enlisted Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, and many more for a new remix album based on their celebrated 2024 record, Songs of a Lost World.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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At a minimum, the United States and its partners would need to procure sufficient stocks in advance to stay in the fight long enough for a much more drastic, full-scale mobilization to be set in motion.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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Statistics like that—and Target’s retreat from DEI—have spurred leaders like Dr. Wes Bellamy, former vice mayor of Charlottesville, to renew efforts around voter mobilization and Black entrepreneurship.—
Richard Fowler,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Verb
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All cardinals in Rome were summoned to a meeting Tuesday before a new pope is elected.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The phrase, summoning a kind of papal succession, alerted the political faithful that Sheinbaum had been chosen to succeed López Obrador as the head of his party, the National Regeneration Movement, or MORENA.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Other parent insights Clifford Davis Elementary’s poor academic performance has prompted some parents to enroll their children elsewhere, or consider doing so.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Apr. 2025
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Plenty of locals, alumni and other curious students have no doubt heard of DBU, but with an undergraduate enrollment of just over 2,800 in 2024, the private college is dwarfed in size by UT Austin, which enrolls over 42,000 undergrads as of the fall 2023 semester.—
Kamaron McNair,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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