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

These songs leave a lot to the imagination, so these kids are summoned in these poetic portraits.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky ran the guest house where witnesses summoned to Nuremberg were lodged, which meant that victims of Nazism and perpetrators of it slept in adjacent bedrooms, passed one another on the stairs and took meals at the same table.

— Natalie Livingstone, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of summoned

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Guitarricadelafuente — who co-stars in the film alongside Milo Quifes and Carlos González — plays Sebastián, a young musician (trumpeter) forcibly recruited by Franco’s forces after surviving an attack during the Spanish Civil War.

— Franchesca Guim, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026
Prosecutors said Clase, who had completed the fourth season of a $20 million, five-year contract, began providing information about his pitches to bettors in 2023 and recruited Ortiz into the scheme in 2025.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of recruited

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New York City voters have five proposals on the backs of their ballots courtesy of Mayor Mamdani’s Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE), convened earlier this year.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
The dismissal follows days of testimony in a series of rare public hearings Faruqui convened to determine whether the government's case against Floris and Benavides met the low bar of probable cause.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

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Researchers enrolled 96 adults ages 18 to 45 who had obesity and had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within the previous six years.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026
More than a third, 37%, of all employees covered by an employer health plan are enrolled in an HSA-eligible plan.

— Stephanie Dhue,Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of enrolled

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

Iran qualified and has been grouped with Syria, China and Kyrgyzstan for the league stage.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
In a two-page editorial published in 1976, Katzman argued that some instances of early- and late-onset dementia should be grouped together as Alzheimer’s disease.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

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