roll call

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Recent Examples of roll call After another roll call came dinner (pork and beans, cornbread, potato salad, apricots, margarine, and coffee) and evening free time, when prisoners could read, play music, or (later) listen to radio. Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026 Maines’ joke came after McConnell, 84, missed 38 roll calls on the Senate floor, per NBC News, leading to widespread speculation about the senator’s health. Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Aug. 2026 Repeat offenders, one of which is a retirement community, the usual vermin and an unusual amount of food thrown out for temperature violations highlight this week’s roll call of South Florida restaurants failing inspection. David J. Neal july 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026 Passed on a unanimous tally of 49-0 (two members missed the roll call) means a Mamdani veto would have zero chance of being sustained. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for roll call
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Noun
  • For years, Connecticut’s position atop the list of states with the priciest electric bills has served as an election-year mantra for Republicans and other critics of the state’s climate-conscious energy strategy.
    John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Even more surprising is the list of prominent customers with delinquent accounts.
    Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • For example, according to TechSpot, Amazon integrated Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model to match author information with product listings.
    Paul Deraval, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • At that scale, a US listing offers him dollar liquidity, index inclusion, and institutional capital the Nigerian Exchange can’t match.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026

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“Roll call.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roll%20call. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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