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Recent Examples of call (up)
Noun
Gasper went 0 for 18 with the Red Sox following his call-up last fall but made the Twins big league roster out of spring training. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2025 Elsewhere there is a first senior call-up for Brighton’s Maisie Symonds. Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025 Fifteen years ago, aged 17, Dowell was a promising full-back in the Worthing under-18s and pushing for a first-team call-up. Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025 Semmel, 23, is on the Angels' lineup card Tuesday as a minor-league call-up for their Cactus League game against the Cincinnati Reds. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for call (up)
Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
Verb
  • 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
  • The next day, on Holy Saturday, families lined up for meals around the church block.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • All cardinals in Rome were summoned to a meeting Tuesday before a new pope is elected.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 1 May. 2025.

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