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call

[kawl] / kɔl /










VERB
attempt to communicate by telephone
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Black bar owners were early adopters and patrons called it the jukebox, the music machine playing down at the “juke joint.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Vauxhall, 150 miles southeast of Calgary, calls itself the “Potato Capital of the West,” but its spud fields whiff of petroleum because they also sprout oil derricks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Researchers used a scale called Joint Savoring in Romantic Relationships, adapted from the widely used Savoring Beliefs Inventory, which assesses how individuals savor positive moments.

From Science Daily

“I would call them the hipsters of their time,” MacAllen says.

From Salon

He repeated familiar calls from the US for Europe to invest more in defence, saying: "We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength."

From BBC