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Recent Examples of call (up)
Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Pawol, who has been a minor league umpire since 2016, is in a rotation of Triple-A call-up umpires who work major league games.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 9 Sep. 2025
The end of talks will likely pave the way for the Israeli military to push ahead with its plans to take over Gaza City, an operation that was approved last month and requires the call-up of nearly 60,000 Israeli reservists.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
Arreola helped Carmel’s freshman team go undefeated and impressed the coaching staff enough to earn a late-season call-up.
—Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Practice squad call-up Corey Ballentine only played on special teams.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Pawol, who has been a minor league umpire since 2016, is in a rotation of Triple-A call-up umpires who work major league games.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 9 Sep. 2025
The end of talks will likely pave the way for the Israeli military to push ahead with its plans to take over Gaza City, an operation that was approved last month and requires the call-up of nearly 60,000 Israeli reservists.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
Arreola helped Carmel’s freshman team go undefeated and impressed the coaching staff enough to earn a late-season call-up.
—Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
Verb
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Vandy isn’t going to line up and trade blows with Alabama.—
Matt Hayes,
USA TODAY,
3 Oct. 2025
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Stout and the 49ers won’t know where Nacua will line up (or is going to wind up) until the second the ball is snapped.—
Vic Tafur,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Choral’s ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
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But the unexpected interloper turns out not to be the last of the heist’s hiccups when new team recruit Zen (Rosa Salazar) plugs Parker’s crew full of bullet holes and makes off with the rest of the cash.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Court summonses are always delivered by mail, not over the phone.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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The filings also contain summonses: For Trump, the Board of Governors at the Fed, Chairman Powell, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and the Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The jump in homeless youth represents a rising number of Cincinnati families who face unstable housing situations, said Rico Blackman, director of organizing at the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Oct. 2025
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Church member Greg Mikat was shot three times, according to the GoFundMe his sister has organized, sustaining injuries to his leg and chest and remains hospitalized, after confronting the gunman.—
Georgea Kovanis,
Freep.com,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Equestrian Connection, which says it was alerted just hours before the event, managed to quickly enlist two local bands to sub in as the night’s entertainment.—
Brian McCollum,
Freep.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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The title subject is a deaf Ukrainian man who wants to enlist in his country’s armed forces in 2022 when Russia launches its full-scale invasion.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Democrats’ most visible strategy appears to be trying to bum a few bucks from the grassroots—when the grassroots’ greatest power is in protest, boycott, and other unified mobilization efforts.—
Sarah Stankorb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Ukraine’s model of unit-level drone academies, standardized syllabi for FPV, ISR, and loitering units, and a pipeline of instructor cadres can be adapted to Taiwan’s reserve structure and mobilization pathways.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Khatami summoned me and heard my warning.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Brown, then 68, had been out of coaching for five years, working as an ESPN analyst, when UNC summoned him back in November 2018 to replace Larry Fedora.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Of the total students enrolled in the accounts program, about 28,166 are attending private school, the report indicates.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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An adult man allegedly used falsified documents to enroll in a Minnesota high school and reportedly played on the football team.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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