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

Five performers meet onstage after that presiding voice dissipates, as if summoned by it.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
By far the most effective and moving parts of Common Knowledge are the performer’s account of the day in 1973 when, at 10 years old, she was summoned home from a neighbor’s house and told by her father that her ailing mother had died.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 July 2026

Definition of summoned

Verb

However, all three of Embiid, Maxey and Brown recruited James directly, according to McMenamin.

— Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
The challenges are where most of the drama goes down, but the show also recruited none other than Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, to serve as a guest judge for an episode that airs on July 26, 2026.

— Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 24 July 2026

Definition of recruited

Verb

But the panel of outside advisers convened for the meeting includes at least seven doctors or pharmacists with financial ties to the peptide industry.

— Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 23 July 2026
On infant formula, Makary convened the world’s leading experts to modernize and expand the ingredient lists—called monographs—that the agency uses to regulate the products.

— Avik Roy, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of convened

Verb

Last year there were 31,142 total students enrolled in the 59 schools operated by the Archdiocese of Miami, which includes Miami-Dade, Monroe and Broward counties.

— Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
Sanders also enrolled Arkansas in the federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer program, helping low-income families with children buy groceries over the summer.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2026

Definition of enrolled

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The shear has already displaced most of Bertha’s thunderstorms to the south of its center, preventing the storm from becoming better organized.

— Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
That belief has organized how families, schools and talent programs operate for nearly a century.

— Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of organized

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The 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, including electrical equipment and machinery, are among the steepest tariffs his administration has levied against any country.

— Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Permitting delays, burdensome regulatory processes and excessive fees levied by government all create the ideal conditions for stagnant housing production.

— Jake Day, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2026

Definition of levied

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Brady was grouped with Novak Djokovic and eventual overall winner Justin Bieber (both of whom hit multiple shots from the three-point line).

— David Betancourt, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Among the diverse international literatures grouped together under that heading, there are dozens of writers who reinvented literature to cope with ruptures of their own.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

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