Appeal to and Call

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Appeal to verb - To make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner.

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Call and appeal to are semantically related in ask to do something socially topic. In some cases you can use "Call" instead a verb "Appeal to".

Call verb - To speak so as to be heard at a distance.

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Appeal to and call are semantically related in demand or announce action topic. Sometimes you can use "Appeal to" instead a verb "Call".

Nearby Words: calling, called, caller, callback, callable

The player character also has the option to respond to nearly every attempt to appeal to their better nature or call them out on the deaths they've caused with a response of this sort.

Source: Shut Up, Kirk!
The film also leaves out their extreme devotion to religion in an attempt to appeal to gung-ho masculine audiences, going as far as having the hero criticize the Athenians as "boy lovers" and call out their own clergy as "corrupt."

Source: Historical Hero Upgrade
A lesser example with Von Rundstedt: after Hitler is awake but still hasn't released the panzer reserves because the German General Staff believes that the Norman operation is a decoy attack, Blumentritt suggests that he call headquarters and make a direct appeal to Hitler.

Source: Film / The Longest Day

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