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Noun
Gasper went 0 for 18 with the Red Sox following his call-up last fall but made the Twins big league roster out of spring training. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2025 Elsewhere there is a first senior call-up for Brighton’s Maisie Symonds. Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025 Fifteen years ago, aged 17, Dowell was a promising full-back in the Worthing under-18s and pushing for a first-team call-up. Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025 Semmel, 23, is on the Angels' lineup card Tuesday as a minor-league call-up for their Cactus League game against the Cincinnati Reds. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for call (up)
Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
Verb
  • But successors on both sides of the aisle are already preparing to line up.
    Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The heat island effect isn’t uniform within a city, and heat maps can line up with class and racial disparities.
    Ula Chrobak, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Hailing from San Jose, California, she’s risen through the soccer ranks: She was recruited by Stanford University and four years later drafted number one in the 2022 NWSL Draft.
    Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Coach Brandon Hopkins called her one of the best pitchers in the nation and expects her to be recruited by top division one programs.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • She was given two pink-colored summonses by the New York Police Department — one for obstructing pedestrian traffic and the other for failure to disperse — before being released.
    Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Most of those offenders, 671, were issued summonses but another 313 were arrested, including 180 who had outstanding warrants, police said.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Incorporating a set of packing cubes can encourage you to pare down and organize your clothing based on the type of clothes or the day.
    Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
  • People search sites, also known as people finder sites, are a kind of data broker that specializes in collecting, organizing and selling access to personal information.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • For Zurich architect Tilla Theus, creating the hotel was a painstaking process that took a decade, enlisting a small army of designers, contractors, and conservators.
    Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Thursday’s official proceedings enlist Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson as honorary starters.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the opposition movement has yet to produce a mass mobilization like the Women's March in 2017, which brought thousands of women to Washington, D.C., after Trump's first inauguration, or the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted in multiple cities after George Floyd's killing in 2020.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The Kremlin said in March that Russia wanted to stop military mobilization in Ukraine, and the re-equipping of Kyiv's military.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Sammie’s music even summons traditional Chinese dancers, awakening Americanized Bo and Grace’s cultural heritage.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Trump summoned House Republicans to the White House for a midday meeting as the beleaguered speaker pulls out all the stops to nudge the process forward before lawmakers leave Thursday for a two-week spring recess.
    Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the average investor doesn’t know a great deal about these guidelines, said certified financial planner and enrolled agent Catherine Valega, founder of Green Bee Advisory in the Boston area.
    Kate Dore, CFP®, EA, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The number of undergraduates enrolling in the school during the fall has steadily increased.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2025

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“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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