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Every American adult can summon up searing images from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

Some years ago, I heard Bach’s “St. John Passion” in Notre-Dame, in all its two-hour majesty, and I can summon up the sensation of the music resounding in the vaults overhead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

When most people think of the venerable character actor Louis Gossett Jr., who died Friday at 87, they understandably summon up his Oscar-winning turn in the 1982 drama “An Officer and a Gentleman.”

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

"If you're going to finish a record, you have to summon up a lot of commitment and confidence and go, 'Right. come on. We're doing this properly'."

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2023

She could summon up those memories by trying really hard.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen




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