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Noun
The team has served as a development ground for future Red Bull drivers in the past, but no driver has received the call-up since Alex Albon in 2019. Sam Joseph, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024 The trials of Jobe Another Mud Hen will have to wait a few more months — say six or so — for his call-up from Toledo: Jackson Jobe. Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2024 Joe Noteboom received the assignment in Week 1, then was replaced mid-game by practice squad call-up A.J. Arcuri after Noteboom suffered a high-ankle sprain. Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 18 Sep. 2024 Having allegedly helped Saint Laurent resist the army call-up in the past, the house now had no qualms about seeing him off. Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for call (up) 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for call (up)
Verb
  • Tanguay’s attorney, Michael Pitt, told the Free Press that even if the city council rescinds its decision to terminate, his client doesn’t want his $90,000-a-year job back, not if council members who lined up against him are in office.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Long gone are the years when loyal Apple fans would line up to trade in their device on a near-annual basis, and the company hasn’t given consumers a big reason to upgrade since adding 5G connectivity with the iPhone 12.
    Andrew Torgan, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • How can business leaders mindfully recruit Millennial workers?
    Edward DeAngelis, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Scripps leaders recruited Leser and his financial expertise to their company, the press release states.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Four people were taken into custody and handed summonses at the event, CBS reported.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2024
  • According to the city’s Sanitation Department, the coordinating agency for street vending enforcement, more than 3,000 summonses have been issued to unlicensed vendors this year.
    Valerie Castro, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • And, increasingly, Republicans are organizing efforts to appeal to those voters.
    Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The Digital Media Hub stores everything in a cloud; AI organizes it into a searchable form to find specific moments.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The team has enlisted Shelter PR, which handled their TIFF campaign, for the Academy push in the U.S.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic often enlist internal and external red teamers to assess new models, and have announced official bug bounty programs that reward sleuths for exposing exploits around high-risk domains, such as CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear).
    Sarah Emerson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Factories were so good at political mobilization, in fact, that some credit them for democracy itself.
    Farah Stockman, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • When Hurricane Helene devastated the southeast just over three weeks ago, the natural disaster prompted a stunning grassroots mobilization from the private sector, catapulting it to the front-line of disaster relief efforts.
    Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Attorney Ariel Mitchell told CNN that one of her clients was summoned to testify in front of the grand jury on Thursday.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Homes are traditionally decorated, featuring deliberate designs called rangolis made of colored rice, sand, or flower petals to summon the goddess Lakshmi to bless their home with wealth and success.
    Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Nor will reaching out to those already signed up for government benefits, as not all poor people enroll in them, and undocumented residents aren’t eligible for them.
    Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The film follows Clawdeen Wolf (Miia Harris), a 15-year-old human/werewolf who enrolls at Monster High and must hide her human identity to avoid expulsion.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024

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“Call (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28up%29. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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