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call up

verb
  1. To retrieve from personal or computer memory. (transitive)
  2. To summon (someone) to report for military service. (transitive)
  3. To select e.g. to a sports squad. (transitive) · Dean Ashton was called up to the England squad for the first time.
  4. To call on the telephone. (transitive)
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Just then, Madame de Villefort, in the act of slipping on her dressing-gown, threw aside the drapery and for a moment stood motionless, as though interrogating the occupants of the room, while she endeavored to call up some rebellious tears.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1008 · C1

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