Ask and Call on

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Ask verb - To put a question or questions to.

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Call on and ask are semantically related in request topic. In some cases you can use "Call on" instead a verb "Ask".

Nearby Words: asked, asking

Call on verb - Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to.

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Ask and call on are semantically related in appeal to topic. Sometimes you can use "Ask" instead a verb "Call on".

Tyler has been known to ask for live audience questions in the middle of concerts before, and actually call on people who raise their hand.

Source: Music / Twenty One Pilots
This work contains examples of: Action Hero: Raye Penber Ask a Stupid Question...: L: If I wanted to hear stupid questions from stupid people I'd call on Matsuda.

Source: Web Video / Death Note Abridged Stacked Sugar Cubes
Zig-zagged on MythBusters, where most of the time the hosts didn't react at all to the narrator (or call on the narrator to do anything), but occasionally they (Adam usually) will nitpick something the narrator just said, or else ask the narrator to say something.

Source: Interactive Narrator

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