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Will we devoutly wish for a new risk factor to call into play as we see memory slipping as our dotage arises?

From Scientific American ● Sep. 16, 2013

Now she would have to call into play all of her climbing ability to keep going up the treacherously steep smooth slates.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Has a young man a right to choose an occupation which will only call into play his lower and inferior qualities, as cunning, deceit, letting all his nobler qualities shrivel and die?

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The interest in apprehension may thus be exhibited and satisfied in divers ways, differing according to the special processes of consciousness which they call into play.

From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry

A third function is that of affording opportunity for the exercise of such specific or general abilities as the curriculum may call into play.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth


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