invocation

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.

The ovation had the character not of high-pitched cheering but of an involuntary low-pitched invocation of wonderment, even disbelief.

He and others say an invocation of the Insurrection Act would shift widespread concern about military policing of American streets into existential territory.

Recreating a famous moment — such as when Seberg runs her finger over her lips as Belmondo had done — was deeply meaningful to him: an invocation.