invocation
Example Sentences
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But Shakespeare as a brand remains unparalleled in our culture: Mere invocation of his work can confer a warm, orangey glow of importance upon an otherwise pedestrian reflection on it.
Forty-plus years later, I regularly attend the monthly town council meeting in our adopted hometown of Fries, in southwest Virginia, and my favorite part is the opening invocation.
Comparisons to the late-1990s dot-com bubble abound, as do invocations of the crash that followed.
From Barron's
The ovation had the character not of high-pitched cheering but of an involuntary low-pitched invocation of wonderment, even disbelief.
From Los Angeles Times
He and others say an invocation of the Insurrection Act would shift widespread concern about military policing of American streets into existential territory.
From Los Angeles Times
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