as in visited
to make a social call upon
lots of well-wishers called on the new parents in the weeks following the birth of their first child
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saw
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According to the affidavit, the inmates somehow sawed through the steel bars behind the toilet and then bent them.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
20 May 2025 -
The rest of the installment was apparently taken after it was sawed off from its base at the ankles.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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“Called (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/called%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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