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call-ups

noun

plural of call-up
as in summonses

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  1. summonses
  2. mobilizations
  3. calls
  4. rallies
Noun
  • In March, Mamdani stopped the NYPD from issuing them criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses.
    — Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Cops had issued summonses to the driver twice before, once in 2024 for failing to yield to a pedestrian and in 2018 for disobeying a traffic device, officials said.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of summonses
Noun
  • Hundreds of thousands have joined daily protests against the plans, in one of the country’s largest social mobilizations since the end of Communist rule 35 years ago.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
  • Nationwide mobilizations with an anchor event in Washington, DC, co-led by Get Free, Next250, and 50501.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 18 June 2026
Definition of mobilizations
Noun
  • The 43-gram glasses use open-ear audio and can handle music, calls, and Meta’s AI assistant without incorporating a camera.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The assumption that Harkness had been placing dropped calls to River’s phone set up the classic Slow Horses scenario where River foolishly goes off on his own to follow a lead and falls into an obvious trap.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of calls
Noun
  • Iran’s government is encouraging massive rallies across the country, but why?
    — Yasmin Vossoughian, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2026
  • French has been to rallies over gerrymandering and redistricting and sometimes wears a Lady Liberty costume.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of rallies
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“Call-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call-ups. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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