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[in-vuh-lid] / ˈɪn və lɪd /




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Moynihan has more than once used “gainsay,” or to declare something as untrue or invalid.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 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

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

This was owing largely to the eleven years she had spent caring for her invalid mother, which had left her with some proficiency as a nurse and an inability to face strong sunlight without blinking.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

If you are one of those who don't need Vegemite medicinally, the thousands of invalids and babies are asking you to deny yourself of it for the time being.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2023

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

It seemed as though notables must be fed to her, much as invalids are spooned their jelly; and though titles were preferred by her, any face once seen in a social paper served as well.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

In the midst of it, the wonder boy Joseph Suaalii smashed Tuipulotu in the tackle, but invalided himself out of the game as a consequence.

From BBC Nov. 24, 2024

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

Soon he was back in the trenches, but then invalided home where he got classified B-1, “fit for garrison service abroad”.

From The Guardian Nov. 28, 2016

Take to heart these figures: there were 57,684 cases of typhoid fever, of which 19,454 were invalided, and 8022 died.

From Lest We Forget World War Stories by Inez Bigwood

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Sir Edward Belcher

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

The aspirant for invaliding sat himself down again at one end of the table, as the captains did at the other.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

In the interim, don’t forget the old clothes—the invaliding suit.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat




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