call up
Example Sentences
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In one example, users of the new phones can press the side button to call up an Uber ride, entering the destination by voice or text.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
In the 1990s some computer games had a "boss key" that allowed staff to call up an Excel spreadsheet if they needed to look like they were working.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026
That foundational constitutional authority in turn supports Title 10 USC 12406, which allows a president to call up the militia — but only under specific, statutorily defined circumstances.
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2025
The facility’s disaster protocols instruct the executive director to call up additional staff to help with evacuations using an “emergency recall list,” but investigators were told that no such list existed, according to the report.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025
There wasn’t an ounce of color left in his cheeks, and his lips began to smack against one another, trying to form the word, trying to call up a memory that was no longer there.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
