invocation
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While neither of the “Devil Wears Prada” movies revolve around Christianity, the invocation of the devil taps into an older moral rhetoric.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
OpenAI’s app developer terms don’t guarantee discoverability, but the company said it is experimenting with ways to surface apps more directly within conversations, without explicit invocation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
In a very modern invocation of the swords-to-plowshares principle, he has evidently told Ukrainian officials that its demobbed soldiers could soon be earning Silicon Valley-level salaries operating American data centers in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
“It is far from clear,” Lederman writes, that any such obstruction of federal law has occurred in Chicago that would warrant the act’s invocation.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025
His invocation was brief and punchy, and for a second I thought we were getting back on the high road to right action.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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