as in summons
to bring together in assembly by or as if by command
convoked the leading experts on juvenile delinquency to study the situation
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Gibbs will be summonsed to Boston Municipal Court for a litany of charges.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
6 May 2024 -
In November 2023, Ivanka Trump was summonsed to the New York State Supreme Court to testify against her father, Donald Trump, in a civil real estate fraud trial.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
13 Sep. 2024
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As the group assembles in the Werk Room, Jewels, who won the bottom-two lip-sync against Arrietty, reads her sister's lipstick mirror message, which sends shockwaves through the room.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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To describe this dystopian reality, Clapp assembles a narrative that is part history, part sociology, part horrifying travelogue.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Convokes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convokes. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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