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In his opinion, “concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part,” Kavanaugh first agreed with the majority that the executive order’s limitations on birthright citizenship are invalid.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 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
Fifa also warns that tickets bought via other routes "may be invalid and may be subject to cancellation without notice".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
He countersued and initially won: A lower court held the lease invalid because its terms could be changed after the fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Taking it in my bed makes me feel like an invalid.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
He reminded me of those aged invalids you see in the poorhouse.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Once a defender, he was invalided out of the game with an ACL injury at 21.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
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
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 Allan Liner Hesperian was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel on the 4th September, 1915; on board were a number of invalided Canadian troops.
From Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War by Raemaekers, Louis
There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the interim, don’t forget the old clothes—the invaliding suit.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick
A number of medical officers convened to examine sick and wounded officers and men, for invaliding or discharge.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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
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
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