calls (off or out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of call (off or out)
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  1. posts
  2. proclaims
  3. gives out
  4. announces
  5. cries
  6. advertises
  7. publishes
  8. declares
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  • On the other side, if OpenAI posts its own collateral, or achieves a high enough credit rating, Nvidia's guarantee ends.
    — Kif Leswing,Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
  • One of the collectors hit is a YouTuber with 148,000 subscribers who posts as SKY-B Cards.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of posts
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  • Assane proclaims his innocence, but everything points to his guilt.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Robert proclaims his son a prodigy, and John’s childhood is swept away from him.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of proclaims
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  • The male of the species remains alone with the eggs and fights off predators until his body gives out, at which point his flesh becomes the hatchlings’ first food.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Sandy praises her crew for performing efficiently under pressure, and gives out the $1,807 each of them earned from a $23,500 tip.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of gives out
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  • The series begins with a prison bus pulling up to a correctional facility in Georgia, where the commander of jail operations, Major Boughner, announces how the 30 participants, 27 men and 3 women, will be divided.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Part of the problem is that friction rarely announces itself as a five-alarm fire.
    — Rhodes Kriske, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of announces
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  • In the other van, Gen cries tears of pride and fulfillment after Aesha and Nathan praise her performance in the last charter.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026
  • On the floor, my brother cries into the carpet, pawing at the ground.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
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  • Atari also advertises support for software developed for its 5200 games console.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The company advertises a 100-mile range and a top speed of 150mph for Midnight, which flies on 12 rotors.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 19 Oct. 2026
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  • Then Irma publishes a manifesto in the campus newspaper under the moniker Witches of Westish.
    — B. D. McClay, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • When the company selling you the scary future publishes internal research saying the scary future has not shown up, that is a signal worth reading.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of publishes
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  • This fertile period of creative and intellectual life wasn’t even a renaissance, one partygoer declares.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The treaty also declares that space is a global commons that can be used only for peaceful purposes.
    — Stephanie Liechtenstein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of declares
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