Synonyms for called
called

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1. called

   Synonyms:
   named, designated, denominated, determined

   Antonyms:
   unnamed, undesignated, misnamed, misdesignated

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1. List of paraphrases for "called":

   drew, named, phoned, requested, appealed, telephoned, entitled, asked, termed, urged, convened, cailed, summoned, invited, rang, dubbed, drawn, 'vecalled, call, demanded, so-called, baptized, requests, appointed, required, request, sought, known, titled, described, pleaded, calls, qualified

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1. John Updike:

   The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

2. Michel Tafoya:

   There's nothing wrong with that at all, except when it excludes anything that might question some of the facts and motivations for those ideas, or those causes, or those thoughts. So in other words, it ends up being very one-sided and that there is no questioning, we saw this so predominantly during the initial phases of COVID, if you questioned anything that was coming out of the CDC or the NIH, you were called names. You were called stupid. You were called a science denier.

3. Pope Francis:

   All of us are called (by God) to be free, all are called to be sons and daughters, and each, according to his or her own responsibilities, is called to combat modern forms of enslavement. From every people, culture and religion, let us join our forces.

4. Justin Timberlake:

   Growing up in school, no one ever called me anything close to an innovator, they called me different, they called me weird, they called me a couple of other words I can't say on TV, so thankfully my mother taught me that being different was a good thing, that being different meant you could actually make a difference, so tonight I want to thank my mom.

5. Meg Chittenden:

   Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.