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

In one case, an employee was summoned out of her office just before a bullet struck the window in front of her desk.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
The tech behemoth briefly restricted a Facebook post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing students during the Gen Z protests in July, just days after regulators summoned the company over concerns about child-abuse content.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of summoned

Verb

Directors and advisors are recruited for their experience and education, and their principal contribution is to apply strategic judgment.

— James Langabeer, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The industry recruited legions of transportation planners and politicians; by the mid-20th century, these new allies had agreed to rebuild their cities to accommodate cars.

— Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of recruited

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How Fast This Trust Can Break HubSpot recently announced its customers would be automatically enrolled in a data-sharing arrangement that pooled their CRM contact and company data across accounts to improve everyone's AI-powered prospecting tools.

— Neda Nia, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Last year, the university enrolled nearly 42,000 of the more than 100,000 California students offered admission in the first-year class.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of enrolled

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To reveal who’s the most rested of them all, the World Economic Forum organized data from Sleep Cycle, an app used around the world that tracks how much shut-eye people are achieving.

— Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Aug. 2026
Authorities have not said who organized a suspicious border breach in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa.

— Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of organized

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Rest assured, the market reaction wasn’t trader nailbiting over tariffs levied on Peru, South Sudan, and the Marshall Islands.

— John Tamny, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
The Texas branch of the NAACP has asked a federal appeals court to consider reversing monetary sanctions levied against attorneys who sued the Keller school board over voter discrimination claims.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of levied

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For Billboard charting purposes, all versions of the same title are grouped together.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
There was an unprecedented growth in Banijay’s live event business, which is grouped with Banijay Entertainment, where revenues soar almost 50% thanks to both the Winter Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 29 July 2026

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