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evocation

[ev-uh-kay-shuhn, ee-voh-kay-] / ˌɛv əˈkeɪ ʃən, ˌi voʊˈkeɪ- /
NOUN
summoning
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Love the evocation of Harlem as a place with a cool interconnected community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

A thrilling evocation of 1980s New York, where hip-hop groups and fashion designers would hang out with Lou Reed and David Byrne.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

It all makes for an atypically clear and unsentimental evocation of wartime displacement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

You’re taking a promenade in a rose garden filled with thorns — forgive my “Bridgerton” evocation.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026

For the first time the evocation of the Founder saddened me, and the campus seemed to rush past me, fast retreating, like the fading of a dream at the sundering of slumber.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison


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