roll call

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Recent Examples of roll call The cast is like a roll call of Next-Gen Hollywood circa 2025: There’s Will Poulter (Midsommar, Death of a Unicorn), running point on the whole operation, and Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things, George Harrison in the upcoming Beatles’ biopics) as a petty officer keeping watch on the perimeter. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025 Over time, what had begun as a personal project acquired the weight of a semi-official document — a roll call of the dead. Mark Harris, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025 This grand avenue was modeled after 19th-century French engineer Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s Parisian boulevards, and it’s lined with a roll call of ornate late 19th and early 20th-century architecture, a historic neighborhood second to none in the United States. Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025 Rows of young men in camouflage report for roll call in the shadow of dilapidated, battle-scarred buildings. Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for roll call
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Noun
  • Saturday, Andrew Abbott went 5 2/3 innings and Friday, in his first game off the injured list, Hunter Greene lasted just four innings.
    C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 26 May 2025
  • Death row pastor finds honor in loving condemned The Nobel Foundation says 338 candidates have been nominated for the 2025 prize, though the list of nominees won't be made public for 50 years.
    James Powel, USA Today, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • The Geekbench listing also suggests Project Moohan runs Android 14, suggesting this is the kernel used in the first version of Android XR.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Ponder is being held in the Jackson County Detention Center on a $500,000 bond, according to the jail’s inmate listing.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025

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“Roll call.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roll%20call. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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