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calling for

ADJECTIVE
requesting
Synonyms




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A nurse calling for the spiritual care team to visit quietly with the mother of a dying child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Two months later, Raman unveiled a plan to ask voters to rewrite Measure ULA, calling for her ballot proposal to be fast-tracked to the council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Honey Ross was raised in Hampstead, north London and is known as a feminist campaigner calling for respect for women regardless of their size, shape or skin colour.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Lawmakers in Okinawa adopted a resolution on Friday calling for revisions to a pact seen as giving the United States military preferential treatment in Japan, following a murder allegedly committed by an American Marine.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Was it walking along the roads calling for her children?

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer


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