summon
Example Sentences
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The nationwide outcry that followed the assault forced Kenya's parliament to summon the country's top security chiefs.
From BBC • May 3, 2026
The question remains whether we as a people can summon the political will to make the needed changes — or any.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
“From the beginning, the conceit was to summon all the types of experiences of Blackness in one place, the project being a vessel or container for all of that expression,” Halsey says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
The opera offers a modern twist on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Diego seeks to summon his late wife on Mexico’s Day of the Dead.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
I think he expected me to agree wholeheartedly about the suffering of the Haitian poor and the injustices of the world, but I couldn’t always summon the same anger he felt.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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