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call of duty



NOUN
line of duty
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The details rarely matter, but the call of duty always does.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

She also said she was "deeply troubled" at her sister's "dangerous" levels of work being characterised in the report as "going above and beyond the call of duty".

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

Though he could live and work elsewhere, he said he feels a call of duty to stay and minister to his shrinking flock.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023

The call of duty for Terri Faloney, a beekeeper in Hamilton, Ontario, came on Wednesday at around 8 a.m.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Ang Dorje had been working well beyond the call of duty for six long weeks.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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