summon
Example Sentences
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The question remains whether we as a people can summon the political will to make the needed changes — or any.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
“From the beginning, the conceit was to summon all the types of experiences of Blackness in one place, the project being a vessel or container for all of that expression,” Halsey says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
On the night of the fall, Herring's mother made a distraught 999 call to summon emergency services.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
The opera offers a modern twist on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Diego seeks to summon his late wife on Mexico’s Day of the Dead.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Impatient, she fidgeted on the living-room daybed, waiting for Salvador to summon her outside.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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