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“So how can I summon everything I have to blow away this audience with superheroic energy, even though I’m just this dumb theater-school kid?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Plain and cursed with spectacles, Mary’s on a speed train to spinsterhood when her relatives summon her to London, where suitors await.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Today, you can still summon an entire generation with the opening guitar melody.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The table’s triangular, gently curved glass plane reads like the calm surface of a pool, beneath which the legs summon a cascade of associations: sea life, bones, waterfowl, twisted roots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

“Can we summon one of his underlings from the Department of Good Fortunes and Bad Omens to give us some advice on the matter?” asks Director Fokus.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Socialism is a belief, and it summons feeling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Wright's lawyers told the High Court in June that the EA did not have the power to issue the summons and it should be thrown out.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Although summer is celebrated as a lazy idyll, it also summons an impulse toward tests of brain and brawn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Victoria Gerrard is another wheelchair user who recently received a jury summons.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

The limp hands tighten, the eyes blink, and with a deep breath she summons the infinite control that is Claire’s.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Roosevelt, a football enthusiast who feared the game might be abolished, summoned leaders from the college football powerhouses of the day—Harvard, Yale and Princeton—to the White House and demanded reform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Also on Thursday, Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi summoned Russian ambassador to Japan Nikolai Nozdrev to lodge a "strong protest" against Putin's surprise move.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

France has summoned the American ambassador to Paris after the diplomat, Charles Kushner, wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron accusing the country of not doing enough to combat antisemitism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Natasia, a teacher in London, says at a previous school she and other staff had been summoned "regularly in the summer months to tell us off about our outfits."

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Certainly, the baker must be summoned at once,” Miss Mortimer said with urgency, and pulled on some mittens.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Listening to Xiu Xiu’s “Eraserhead” on a hot and stormy Friday afternoon is an atavistic summoning of the many gifts that David Lynch left us to remember him by.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

A guard yelled into the common room, summoning Wilber during the early afternoon of June 26.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Last week, Canada said it was summoning the Israeli ambassador over the incident.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

French prosecutors are summoning Elon Musk to face preliminary criminal charges in an investigation into his social media platform, X.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Nico kept summoning more legionnaires to join the fight.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan