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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

Vonnegut’s openness to serendipitous in-person encounters is exactly the spirit that Nicholas Epley hopes to summon with “A Little More Social,” a cheerful, data-supported apologia for conversation and conviviality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

“If the CEO fails to comply, extraordinary works meetings will be held simultaneously across VW after the summer break to summon the management board members to the microphone.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The WHO chief and Brazil's president on Monday urged the G7 to summon the "courage" to finish the international treaty on handling future pandemics.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

“First—and I mean no disrespect to her soothsaying abilities—but I feel it is far from certain that Madame Ionesco will truly be able to summon the shade of Edward Ashton. Do you agree?”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Issuing the summons against the four men last year, District Judge Stephen Leake said the EA alleged there had been "a deliberate plan by officers of the company to manipulate the OSM regime".

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

If “Masters of the Universe” tanks, here’s hoping Galitzine summons the strength to dig himself out of the rubble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

A horn’s brassy trumpeting split the air without warning, its summons rising from the distant Temple of Lkossa to reverberate across the Night Zoo’s lawns in long, sonorous notes.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

I wanted to resemble the relaxed browsers who paused over a melon because its scent had summoned them.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

A few islanders were summoned for a sleepover at a different villa before Casa Amor, and for the first time, only three couples were in the final after two pairs got dramatically dumped.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

At last coffee is brought in, and the gentlemen are summoned.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

At Ojai, Lewis wistfully performed the solo prelude off in Libbey Park shrubbery as if a dallying forest spirit summoning ghosts of festivals past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The Nazi surrender brought a new challenge: absorbing a decade’s worth of horrors while summoning the will to help Europe rebuild.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, when he was their age, young Giles, nicknamed Ripper, terrorized London by summoning hell spawn for fun.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

Leicester will be summoning the spirit that flattened Saints 41-17 in the reverse fixture a month ago.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

And though I had been instructed to say this, I found no trouble summoning the anguish of its meaning.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri