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

calls (on or upon)

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present tense third-person singular of call (on or upon)

as in visits

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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At the end of the first season, when Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys visits Storm’s End to petition House Baratheon to join their cause, he and Alicent’s second son, Aemond, trade barbs.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Breakthrough has relationships with several schools in the area and regularly visits schools to present its program to area fourth graders, Cox said.

— Austin Horn July 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

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Like Parker and filmmaker Robert Altman, another Kansas City native, Swift sees Sudeikis as a genius.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026
And the viewer sees the crowd too—sometimes as a great, heaving body, other times as individual figures, each with their own rapt expression.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026

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