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call out

verb

  1. to utter aloud, esp loudly
  2. tr to summon
  3. tr to order (workers) to strike
  4. tr to summon (an employee) to work at a time outside his normal working hours, usually in an emergency
  5. tr to challenge to a duel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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She was so well-known that people called out to her on the street.

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Public Counsel Chief Executive Kathryn Eidmann said she believes her organization has a duty to call out what it sees as an injustice: leaving vulnerable children without legal representation.

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Now dreams will come true this weekend as 257 players hear their name being called out at this year's NFL Draft.

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“And so if you want this democracy, this democratic republic, to survive, that has to be called out with clarity and conviction, period, full stop.”

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In the eyes of many, he failed to unequivocally call out Russian aggression in Ukraine or tackle China's surveillance and persecution of its Catholics.

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