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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calling (off or out)
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Gas stations, movie theaters, and other businesses took a similar approach, giving out free promotional glassware to encourage more robust collections.—
Alexandra Churchill,
Martha Stewart,
17 Apr. 2026 -
The city should have more police officers giving out tickets to inconsiderate dog owners.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
Verb
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In the book, Turrubiate-Simpson questioned why the dogs weren't barking near the kennel right before the murders are thought to have taken place.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
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But investigators eventually cracked the passcode on Paul Murdaugh’s phone and found a video with a barking dog and Alex Murdaugh’s voice admonishing it five minutes before the young man stopped using his phone.—
Jeffrey Collins,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
Verb
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Djena remembered her mother crying as her father drove her away.—
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Videos published on social media this week show groups of crying women and children pleading for help.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 May 2026
Verb
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bulletin announcing the arrest of 33-year-old Brandon Tyrell Simmons in connection with a deadly stabbing in Palmdale.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
17 May 2026
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His visits this year have been jam-packed with news, from announcing the capture of Venezuela's then-president Nicolás Maduro and strikes on Iran.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
17 May 2026
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Towers has been freed after posting $30,000 bail.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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Also, the two opposing narratives were mirror images of each other in volume and posting cadence, suggesting that the same culprit may have been amplifying both sides of the fight.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
Verb
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Again, the show is insistent on proclaiming Val’s greatness without putting in the work.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
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Which is to say that its power as a mode of redress in the first sense—as agent for proclaiming and correcting injustices—is being appealed to constantly.—
Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Verb
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More than half of Premier League front-of-shirt deals are due for renewal and, with betting-advertising regulations changing, the industry feedback is that sponsorship levels on offer have been depressed somewhat.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Near MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, for example, one hotel that normally charges around $200 a night was advertising a rate of $800 on nights around June World Cup matches.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
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Trump, perhaps sensing that promulgating Orwellian lies wouldn’t be easy, given what happened in Minneapolis, didn’t spend his time promoting them.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Calling (off or out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calling%20%28off%20or%20out%29. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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