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invalid

[in-vuh-lid] / ˈɪn və lɪd /




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But Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier nonetheless sought to intervene in Simpson’s case, arguing in filings that the surrogacy agreement was invalid and Zhou hadn’t proved parentage under Florida law.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Asylum cases must be filed within a year of entry in the country, and an invalid claim could lead to deportation proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Even if your grandmother changed her will because she was tired of arguing with your father, that doesn’t automatically make the change legally or morally invalid.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Bellows, now Maine’s secretary of state and a gubernatorial candidate, recently struck the question from the ballot due to invalid signatures, a decision that’s now in court.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2026

In spite of his protests, the unhappy invalid was confined to his chamber for three mortal days.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.

From Salon Sep. 1, 2022

Patient outcomes varied depending on whether you asked the officer who lost fighters, the ferryman who shuttled the sick, the doctor who treated invalids or the adjutant who buried bodies.

From Scientific American Jul. 23, 2022

Wealthy invalids flocked to the south Devon town for its sunshine and sea air.

From The Guardian Feb. 15, 2021

Tuesday's voting was reserved for the aged, invalids, people in hospitals and the military.

From Fox News Apr. 26, 2019

There were many tables with empty places or invalids who had once been as strong as horses, but the sun continued to rise.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Last August, the U.S. military’s top appeals court upheld Bergdahl’s conviction, rejecting arguments that public comments by Trump and McCain should have invalided his prosecution, Military.com reported.

From Fox News Feb. 18, 2021

Three years later, he was invalided out of the service with stomach ulcers.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2020

He knows that the old songs give “the invalided and senile a musical opportunity to re-court their wives, re-raise their children and re-fight their wars.”

From New York Times Sep. 21, 2017

Just as Connie Willis salutes the resilience of Brits in her fiction about England during World War II, Kowal pays similar tribute in this novel through her depiction of grandmotherly Mrs. Richardson and invalided Lt.

From Seattle Times Sep. 4, 2016

The visits of the invalided soldier meant so much to her.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente

There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.

From Time Magazine Archive

In hospital they are always professing to a recovery from fever that their pallid faces and enlarged spleens belie, and they take not kindly to any suggestion of invaliding.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Dolbey, Robert Valentine

That evening Dr Thompson made the captain’s punch, having carefully locked up in his largest tea-chest his invaliding suit.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

The next in seniority was entirely adverse to the invaliding, as, without he could invalide too, he would have to go to the West Indies in the place of our surgeon.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

It may correct some errors, and prepare you for next invaliding day.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick




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