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As Mr. Mackintosh suggests, the required serial short-term borrowing means that considering current short-term against long-term rates is an invalid cost comparison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then president Maithripala Sirisena in May 2019 was "arbitrary and invalid".

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Challenges to Essayli’s position were brought in several criminal cases, with defense lawyers arguing that charges filed under his watch are invalid and should be dismissed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Jean-Philippe Mateta is arguing the remainder of his Crystal Palace contract is invalid and has taken his case to Fifa.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Etty kept getting sick; she was, at seventeen, an invalid, very weak and at times close to death.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Pandemics, mansions, triangles, illnesses, abandonments, deaths, letters and inheritances also kaleidoscopically reappear, as do grandfathers, lovers, invalids, caretakers, utopians and more.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

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

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2021

He reminded me of those aged invalids you see in the poorhouse.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

General Temple, a few days after the party, fell a victim to a seductive pudding prepared by Delilah, and was immediately invalided with the gout.

From Throckmorton by Molly Elliot Seawell

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Frederick Marryat

Sent back by me eventually to Korogwe with a letter advising his invaliding out of the country, he opened and read my report upon the way.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey

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

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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 Frederick Marryat