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

Example Sentences

When she got around to naming Martin Scorsese, she landed at the perfect opportunity to call out his preference for making films that center primarily on men.

From Salon

Most of the choices are relatively small — what play to call out of a timeout, when to use a challenge, how to adjust a pick-and-roll coverage.

From Los Angeles Times

CDF workers say civilians, including women and children, are increasingly among the dead and injured when they attend a call out.

From BBC

Going back to the original problem of how to interview Trump, there's been so much of this demand that you call out his lies while not providing any meaningful information about policy and relevant facts, and I think that has bled into journalism in such a way that I’m not sure we know how to find our way back.

From Salon

Kamala Harris has finally begun to call out the extreme danger of the Trumpian reality, but she also can’t help herself; she still normalizes him by labeling his statements unhinged, rather than strategic.

From Slate

Related Words

• ask for
• assert
• call for
• claim
• confront
• defy
• demand
• denounce
• impose
• require
• test
• try