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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Video footage of that night was captured by Lopez’s younger sister, who was outside with her brother smoking on the front lawn of their parents’ home when the two officers arrived and summoned Lopez out into the street, according to Kremer.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
When Georg discards the item and it is found by the police, Fritz is summoned to Westhofen to identify it.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of summoned

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The canvas also included the logos of the Springfield Wildcats, Bel’s high-school soccer team, and the Wittenberg Tigers, the team of Wittenberg University, a private college that had recruited Bel to play.

— Edwidge Danticat, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2026
This reboot, directed by Kitao Sakurai and starring Noah Centineo and Andrew Koji, takes place in 1993 as two estranged fighters are recruited to enter a tournament that forces them to face off against each other.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of recruited

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Nadella recalled a meeting around 2008–09, convened by then-chairman Bill Gates, to review a potential acquisition involving a team working on parallel data warehousing.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
But by 1965, when Johnson convened a committee to study the issue, half of those buildings had been either destroyed or damaged beyond repair.

— Rachel Treisman, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of convened

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Right now, funny young people who would have enrolled in Improv 101 in 2006 are learning how to edit audio.

— Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
Born in Odessa, Kotlyarenko moved to New York and enrolled at Columbia University, taking film, philosophy and literature.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

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The Israeli-American Council organized a protest on Friday outside of the Laemmle NoHo 7 in North Hollywood, timed to the screening of the feature that examines Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026
Two of Belgium’s largest labor unions organized Friday’s daylong national strike, with a separate public-sector walkout planned for Monday.

— James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of organized

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This comes after the league rescinded fines levied against 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk and Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson for pretending to chug an imaginary drink.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
The funding comes from the 6% tax levied on hotel room nights and short-term rental stays in Orange County – a pool of money likely to surpass $400 million this year, although much of that total is already allocated.

— Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of levied

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That broader attention makes precise terminology useful when different medications are grouped under the GLP-1 label.

— Emma Clapp, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Although System of a Down is often grouped with the nu metal bands that dominated heavy music at the time, including Korn and Limp Bizkit, Malakian never saw the band as fitting neatly into any genre.

— Alex Distefano, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

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