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  • past tense form of call.
  • past participle of call.

called

ADJECTIVE
named
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
appointed
Synonyms


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Public affairs professional Alex Challoner told me he came to London from the West Country when he was 21 and has called the city his home for 35 years.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Eero Saarinen produced the molded-fiberglass Pedestal chair, sweeping the seat and stem into a single sculptural form intended to eliminate what he called the “slum of legs” beneath tables and chairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The husband of a former SK hynix worker who died from breast cancer called on the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service to recognise his wife's illness as work-related.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ruttenberg, 25, called her boss in Texas and quit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

I bite my lip at the insult, unsure whether—beyond me—her crack was supposed to be about culture, quantum, or the nearly forty tribal Nations within what’s currently called Oklahoma.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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