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Challenges to Essayli’s position were brought in at least three criminal cases, with defense lawyers arguing that charges filed under his watch are invalid and should be dismissed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
"If we didn't top the group, all of our tickets would have become invalid."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The arrival of the tray, carried up the stairs as if for an invalid.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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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
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Marc Leonard and the wonderful lynchpin at the back, Craig Halkett, were invalided out of the action.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
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
Then he saw the white-haired rector gazing at him piteously, and the suffering invalided mother who worshipped her son.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
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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This was the first time Aubrey had been considered in condition for such festivities, and the gratification of being superior to somebody might account for his glee in invaliding his friend.
From The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
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
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