See call an audible on Wiktionary
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"To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one."
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"ref": "1997 October 29, James R. Oestreich, “Juilliard Quartet's Musical Chairs; Sounding Board for the New, Strings Attached to the Old”, in The New York Times",
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"ref": "2001 December 5, Jim Hoagland, “'Calling Audibles'”, in The Washington Post",
"text": "\"We will be calling audibles every time we come to the line,\" one participant recalls [Condoleezza Rice] saying to [Bush] then.",
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"ref": "2004, Richard L. Armitage, Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2005: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, Part 5: Iraq Reconstruction Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 10",
"text": "We found this insurgency much more virile than we expected, so we called an audible."
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"ref": "2008, Doug Fields & Duffy Robbins, Speaking to Teenagers: How to Think About, Create, and Deliver Effective Messages, Zondervan/Youth Specialties, page 28",
"text": "Based on that decoding process, we may need to call an audible and either fine-tune or change channels in an attempt to help teenagers decode our messages more accurately."
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"ref": "2014, Christopher R. Hill, Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, page 216",
"text": "I reflected on what must have been their instructions, and what would have been the consequences for them of not following them, or of calling an audible, not a concept known in the North Korean foreign ministry.",
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"To change plans at the last minute based on newly revealed information."
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"(US, idiomatic) To change plans at the last minute based on newly revealed information."
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"text": "We found this insurgency much more virile than we expected, so we called an audible."
},
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"ref": "2008, Doug Fields & Duffy Robbins, Speaking to Teenagers: How to Think About, Create, and Deliver Effective Messages, Zondervan/Youth Specialties, page 28",
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},
{
"ref": "2014, Christopher R. Hill, Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, page 216",
"text": "I reflected on what must have been their instructions, and what would have been the consequences for them of not following them, or of calling an audible, not a concept known in the North Korean foreign ministry.",
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