as in to organize
to assemble and make ready for action
we are prepared to mobilize the troops on very short notice
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Recent Examples of mobilize
Some called for Alawites to mobilize an armed response against Syria’s new authorities.
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Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
In each case, Samaritan’s Purse — the international relief organization led by Graham — has mobilized to help.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
As word spread, family members and legal advocates quickly mobilized, reaching out to the BOP’s Residential Reentry Managers in hopes of salvaging community placement plans.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The European Union has also drawn up plans to mobilize up to 800 billion euros ($883 billion) to bolster regional security.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
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Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
In each case, Samaritan’s Purse — the international relief organization led by Graham — has mobilized to help.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
As word spread, family members and legal advocates quickly mobilized, reaching out to the BOP’s Residential Reentry Managers in hopes of salvaging community placement plans.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The European Union has also drawn up plans to mobilize up to 800 billion euros ($883 billion) to bolster regional security.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mobilize
Verb
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From organizing food drives to donating recycling proceeds to global projects, EOLO is proof that small acts can scale.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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The forty-three students in Tate’s charge visited all the city’s major sites, plus some often overlooked on school trips organized by white teachers: Frederick Douglass’s house, Miner Teachers College, and the Howard University campus that would later become Tate’s academic home.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Apr. 2025
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News.—
Eleanor Watson,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2025
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That same year, however, U.S. troops in Syria and neighboring Iraq increasingly clashed with local militias aligned with Iran, escalating to the point of Trump ordering the killing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force chief Major General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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All cardinals in Rome were summoned to a meeting Tuesday before a new pope is elected.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The phrase, summoning a kind of papal succession, alerted the political faithful that Sheinbaum had been chosen to succeed López Obrador as the head of his party, the National Regeneration Movement, or MORENA.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Mobilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mobilize. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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