CALLED (UP) Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

called (up)

verb

past tense of call (up)

as in lined up

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as in recruited

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Verb

Prosecutors have requested that the defendants be summoned for questioning, but the judge has not ordered it.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Forensic teams summoned to a nearby police complex during the raid were never sent to the scenes, according to records reviewed by the organization.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of summoned

Verb

Republicans argue the second Sullivan was recruited into the race to sow confusion, an allegation substantiated on Wednesday by a bombshell New York Times report.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2026
Undaunted by the huge blank wall, Mendez recruited some of the same young people working on the 23rd Street mural along with youth from the neighborhood.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of recruited

Verb

Top executives convened for a panel hosted by The Female Quotient and F1 Academy during the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.

— Christina Perrier, InStyle, 29 Oct. 2026
Despite that lack of evidence, the loosening of restrictions has come after the FDA began analyzing how to make the substances more accessible and convened a panel to discuss allowing compounding pharmacies to manufacture them.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of convened

Verb

As a result of sticker shock, Ohio saw the biggest drop — tied with Oklahoma for the most in the nation — in the number of people enrolled in the marketplace last year, with a nearly 33% decline in enrollment.

— Saige Miller, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
Stankard was born in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, in 1943 and enrolled in 1961 in a glassblowing program at Salem County Vocational Technical Institute.

— Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of enrolled

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The group has organized several listening events, at venues from the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania to the Angel Orensanz Center, housed in a 175-year-old former synagogue in New York.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
XPeng shared footage of the test on October 23, following a drive organized by Chinese automotive platform BitAuto, also known as Yiche.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of organized

Verb

Since then, Pritzker has been quick to note property taxes are levied locally, shifting responsibility for lowering bills to school districts and municipalities.

— Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026
No sanctions to date have been levied against any of these lawyers, despite legal rules that allow for it.

— Miles J. Zaremski, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of levied

Verb

Acxiom, a major data company, developed a segmentation system called PersonicX that grouped households into lifestyle categories.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Two popular names with deep ties to the Pittsburgh region will be grouped this week at the PGA Tour's event in Bermuda.

— Mike Darnay, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

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