call (off or out)

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Verb
  • After another person in the club, who was a medic, proclaimed that Morrison was dead, two drug dealers allegedly moved Morrison to his apartment to cover up the overdose and protect their boss, Count Jean de Breteuil, per Rolling Stone.
    Makena Gera, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But despite proclaiming that the Terps were ready to compete for a conference championship, his tenure has been marked by an inability to get the program over the hump against elite opponents.
    C.J. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Each coin was worth $100, and only the players lowered within the 20 minutes could give out their shields.
    Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Expected to come in a 2025 upgrade, these will enable you to stop giving out your real Gmail address to people or companies that ask for them.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Beginning in 1992, the Ontological-Hysteric occupied an upper chamber of the beautiful St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, and Foreman advertised his yearly shows there with blizzards of black-and-white posters, which were wheat-pasted all over the Village every winter.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Driving over the Bay Bridge into the city, billboard after billboard advertised AI products and services.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • What To Know Margo Martin, Trump's deputy director of communications, posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, showing Trump, his wife Melania Trump and his son Barron Trump boarding Air Force One.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Or posted it on Instagram along with some dramatic gospel music?
    John Blake, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Critics cried nepotism and lamented Robert F. Kennedy’s lack of qualifications and prior experience.
    Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2025
  • All this recalls the fable of the boy who cried wolf once too often.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In a 2017 review of 34 studies published in Advances in Preventive Medicine, 29 found exercise improves both the quantity and quality of sleep.
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The researchers’ findings were published today in the journal Science.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the equivalent of three full-time fire department positions — likely non-firefighter staff members — are slated to be among 91 or so layoffs expected to soon be announced.
    Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The changes announced Saturday didn't apply to UCLA Health or health care staff, Frenk said.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • McFadden repeatedly barked to silence Canty, the chief deputy said.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Right on cue, Comet, in Section 428, high above the court, barked.
    Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Call (off or out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/call%20%28off%20or%20out%29. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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