CALLING (ON OR UPON) Synonyms: 10 Similar and Opposite Words

calling (on or upon)

verb

present participle of call (on or upon)

as in visiting

to make a social call upon lots of well-wishers called on the new parents in the weeks following the birth of their first child

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The year before, Milton Reynolds had discovered the pen while visiting Buenos Aires, and rushed home to create his own version, the Reynolds Rocket, which hit stores on October 29, 1945.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Simply visiting a phishing page does not automatically mean your information was stolen.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026

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Thinking that writing code was the only bottleneck for deploying new software is like the Titanic seeing the tip of the iceberg and assuming there was nothing underneath it.

— Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2026
Reading a book, a poem, seeing a painting or a sculpture, or even hearing the intro of a song.

— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026

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