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When we tell ourselves stories about warrior elites—and invoke their iconography to inspire and galvanize—we often dismiss and ignore their victims as inconvenient or annoying footnotes.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

It did not explicitly invoke the unitary executive theory, but its fealty to the doctrine was clear.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

Porter’s death has become a rallying point for Los Angeles activists, who regularly invoke his name at Police Commission meetings and protests.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

When those visuals stoke outrage or invoke a deep-seated bias, onlookers are even more likely to engage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Lyra heard the Master say quietly, “If he forces a vote, we could try to invoke the residence clause. He hasn’t been resident in the College for thirty weeks out of the last fifty-two.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

The very history he so powerfully invokes to explain the 14th Amendment’s origins often becomes, in his jurisprudence, a reason to limit rather than enlarge its reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

It’s worth noting that Mrs. Biden invokes the current president by his name very sparingly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

The Philippines invokes its geographical proximity to the Spratly Islands as the main basis of its claim for part of the grouping.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Second, the DOJ invokes the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and its requirement that all states must maintain a computerized, statewide voter registration list.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026

Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Ryan said he "invoked his imagination" which he had as a child growing up in Wales running around and playing, while acting as the character.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

While B.P.J. invoked Bostock, “Title VII concerns employment, whereas Title IX as relevant here focuses on sports. The two factual contexts are vastly different,” Justice Kavanaugh writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Rep. Charles Bennett, a Florida Democrat, invoked the now-familiar idea of the nation’s religious character.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

The officer invoked this exception against Lau, snatching his green card and “paroling” him into the country.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

She invoked the Sunday rule as soon as he returned from the skateboard park, and a family outing was launched.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

“We’re going to have a more fluid relationship to housing,” he says, invoking the Zipcar model of car sharing and the Airbnb model of short-term rentals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Indeed, there are notable advantages in invoking the clause as a reaction to Callais.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

But then he offers, again, both a hope and a prayer, invoking Renee Good’s last words, quoting John Lewis, and urging the audience to get into “good trouble”: “Say something! Do something! Help! Sing something!”

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

You’re invoking the widely held assumption that he lip syncs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Barred by law from invoking race explicitly, those committed to racial hierarchy were forced to search for new means of achieving their goals according to the new rules of American democracy.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander