cattle call

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As Kate Briquelet of the Daily Beast reported from the Moms for Liberty presidential cattle call after Trump's keynote speech:

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2023

I auditioned, it was a cattle call for a bunch of young kids.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2021

And the ensemble’s performance on television — in which each dancer in a cattle call audition routine somehow stood out as a quivering individual — palpably made clear what all the excitement was about.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2020

“There is no more time for repeating ourselves,” he said at the start of a recent cattle call in Iowa.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2019

Ethan said, "It's a theatrical saying. It means an open audition. Even if they mean people, they call it a cattle call."

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg