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as in lined up
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as in recruited
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for called (up)
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Researchers recruited 12 dogs with no history of separation anxiety for the experiment.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025 -
The high school softball player, hoping to major in psychology, was recruited to the KU women’s rowing team.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
24 Sep. 2025
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Even after the Tennessee National Guard was summoned to restore order, staunch segregationists refused to let up.—
Andrea Williams,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Sep. 2025
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There, officers were summoned to the front of a nearby home where a man was found just outside.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
26 Sep. 2025
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The dispute affected educators and policymakers statewide — but Pendleton managed to take the best of both literacy methods and apply them to the 130,000-plus students then enrolled in San Diego schools, Lopez said.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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Igou is also facing a felony count of neglect of a dependent because her eldest child was allegedly not enrolled in school, according to court records reviewed by PEOPLE.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
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On Monday, Shapiro convened a summit at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia after the cost of securing wholesale power supplies on the grid set a record for two straight years.—
Tyler Kendall,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
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More than a thousand Cubans have signed contracts to fight for Russia against Ukraine, and 39 have been confirmed dead, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence said in a press briefing convened by Cuban American Republican lawmakers from South Florida.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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Both visits were organized and efficient.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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His government organized a national dialogue conference the next month, but the conference was brief—only a day and a half—and short on real, in-depth debate.—
Sam Heller,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
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While there was not a specific window of timing that constituted the early versus the late eating group, the researchers grouped participants relative to their peers.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
24 Sep. 2025
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For example, Reggio Emilia classrooms are grouped more traditionally by age, and teachers take on groups for one academic year (instead of three years, as in Montessori).—
Katrina Donham,
Parents,
23 Sep. 2025
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Between 2017 and 2021, the United States levied a number of restrictions against Huawei, asserting that the telecommunications company was a national security threat owing to its close relationship with the CCP and history of industrial espionage.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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Tariffs are not levied on other countries.—
Bill Koenig,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Called (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/called%20%28up%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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