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  • noun Plural form of call.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of call.

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Examples

  • Exemptions would apply for certain prerecorded health-care-related calls, professional charity fund-raisers, and information-only calls  (i.e.: Your cable installer is running five hours late.)

    Say goodbye to prerecorded telemarketing calls 2008

  • He's taken a position on the _Boston Beacon_ and calls, actually _calls_, on his wife evenings or takes her and me out to theatres and dinners.

    A Son of the Hills

  • It has now dismissed me with a month's notice for what it calls -- what it _calls_, Canon Ronder --

    The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912

  • ” Then the critic calls attention to the demands which the short-story makes on the writer if he is really to achieve a masterpiece in this form; and he asserts that the short-story at its best “calls for visual imagination of a high order: the power to see the object; to penetrate to the essential nature; to select the one characteristic trait by which it may be represented.

    Introduction 1907

  • Designer Tracy Reese has an employee dedicated to creating exclusives, or, as the label calls them, "specials."

    The Making of an 'Exclusive' Elizabeth Holmes 2011

  • In Romaine Brooks's stylishly mannish self-portrait, painted in 1923; in Berenice Abbott's 1927 photograph of the writer Janet Flanner wearing a white top hat appended with two masks, one white and one black; and in Abbott's photograph, also from 1927, of a relatively demure Betty Parsons, future art dealer of the Abstract Expressionists, we see vivid portrayals of what a label calls the "elite expatriate lesbian society" that flourished in Paris between the wars.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011

  • Designer Tracy Reese has an employee dedicated to creating exclusives, or, as the label calls them, "specials."

    unknown title 2011

  • In Romaine Brooks's stylishly mannish self-portrait, painted in 1923; in Berenice Abbott's 1927 photograph of the writer Janet Flanner wearing a white top hat appended with two masks, one white and one black; and in Abbott's photograph, also from 1927, of a relatively demure Betty Parsons, future art dealer of the Abstract Expressionists, we see vivid portrayals of what a label calls the "elite expatriate lesbian society" that flourished in Paris between the wars.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011

  • Ah, but Venkatesh in his title calls himsel a "rogue" sociologist, which I guess is sort of like being a tenured "radical" -- it gives you some leeway, no?

    Puff The Magic Sociologist: Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader For A Day, A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets Tenured Radical 2009

  • The band of the title calls itself the Alexandria Police Ceremonial Orchestra and consists of eight Egyptian policemen of various ages, all of them dressed in snazzy powder-blue uniforms.

    'In Bruges' Gives 2008

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