RECALLING Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

recalling

verb

present participle of recall

as in remembering

to bring back to mind I don't recall meeting you before

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as in canceling

to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to) I'll recall my purchase order if the company refuses to guarantee that it'll arrive before Christmas

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Recent Examples of recalling Ford Motor Company is recalling over 387,000 vehicles due to a potential issue with the seats that could increase the risk of an injury. — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 20 July 2026 According to Grassley, the FBI’s stated reason for recalling the report was concern that its contents would contradict then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s congressional testimony. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 19 July 2026 White said, recalling what first went through her mind after Clark carried the Fever to a come-from-behind win. — James Boyd, New York Times, 18 July 2026 Produce supplier Taylor Farms is recalling iceberg lettuce shipped to 27 US states because of potential contamination with cyclospora, the parasite causing thousands of cases of diarrhea across the country. — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Money, 18 July 2026 David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taylor Farms is voluntarily recalling iceberg lettuce in 27 states because the greens potentially could be contaminated with cyclosporiasis. — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 18 July 2026 Indeed, there’s even an extended sequence in which the teens get high and dance to techno, recalling Noé’s Climax. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 17 July 2026 At my other grandmother’s funeral, my uncle spent much of his eulogy recalling his vivid—perhaps too vivid—memories of being born. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026 Subaru of America is recalling more than 541,000 of its Crosstrek, Forester, and Ascent SUVs due to an inaccurate label attached to the vehicles. — ABC News, 14 July 2026

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Concerns should be raised honestly, and employees should cooperate in good faith, remembering that the new manager was hired for their experience and knowledge that the organization desires.

— Dr. Cynthia J. Young, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Juliette later makes a stop to see Shirley, who is still being unreasonably pouty about her amnesiac friend not remembering her — and is, again, curtly dismissive of Juliette’s search for Lukas.

— Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 July 2026

Definition of remembering

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Consumers bypassing or canceling their cable subscriptions are cutting into the fees stations receive from pay TV providers.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
The requirement that companies have clear processes for cancelling a subscription or membership does not apply to all businesses.

— P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026

Definition of canceling

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Three years after buying Bellus Health and its chronic cough candidate camlipixant for around $2 billion, GSK is abandoning the program, Pharmaphorum points out.

— Ed Silverman, STAT, 17 July 2026
The idea of abandoning the whole schedule alarmed several health officials, including then-FDA commissioner Marty Makary and Tracy Beth Høeg, one of his top deputies, four sources said.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of abandoning

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His administration has increased scrutiny of legal immigration, revoking student visas and green cards of university students over their ideological views and stripping legal status from hundreds of thousands of migrants.

— Doina Chiacu, USA Today, 16 July 2026
The company is reportedly now blocking 23 million spam views and revoking nearly 2 million inauthentic votes per day, while pointing to the community moderators and users that have long played a role in combatting content that violates its rules.

— Cody Luongo, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of revoking

Verb

The dismantling and scrapping process took over five years, with the project being completed in July 2017.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
In turn, Nolan has sacrificed Odysseus himself to serve his own needs, scrapping the character’s prickly personality to Trojan-horse a message about how empires collapse.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of scrapping

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Instead of lobbying for the law, Congress should be thinking about reforming, if not repealing, it.

— James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
Advertisement In recent years, some church leaders have advocated for repealing the 19th Amendment, which gave American women the right to vote.

— Chantelle Lee, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of repealing

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