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call on
Also, call upon.
Make a request, ask for, choose, as in We are calling upon you to run for chairman , or The teacher called on Joe to answer . [c. 1400]
Pay a brief visit, as in The salesman said he'd call on me in the morning . Shakespeare had this usage in Antony and Cleopatra (1:4): “I'll call upon you ere you go to bed.” [Late 1500s]
Example Sentences
A day before Noem’s accusation, she said the exact opposite and called on Mexicans in Southern California to act peacefully.
An Italian museum has called on patrons to "respect art" after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of glittering crystals.
Dombos, 44, described the curfew as a political stunt and called on the mayor’s office to investigate the “brutal tactics” by Los Angeles police officers.
Mr Boutcher called on those involved to stop and warned that there will be prosecutions.
It has become such a pervasive issue that in April the children's commission for England called on the government to introduce legislation to ban them altogether.
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