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As “Dreams” veers on exploiting prejudice, Franco pans out for a broader view of the carnage our desperation to survive can invoke.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

He implores Congress to invoke this clause to make a case for new voting rights legislation that can address the post-Callais landscape.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 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

He’d riled me up because this was the very last time he would invoke his inane marriage argument, ever again, as long as we both should live.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

The book invokes James Carville and David Brooks as prominent talking heads, which is about 20 years out of date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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

The “mystic chords of memory” that Abraham Lincoln invoked in his first inaugural address are real, and they matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

Hemani reminds courts that analogies are not self-executing and must be tested, not merely invoked.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

For myself, I sent a humble greeting to St. Medericus, the Hermit, w'ho is invoked against intestinal disorders.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Police Chief Gene Harris, however, kept the shooting video under wraps for nearly 10 months by invoking an exception to state law requiring police shootings be released, citing an investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Residents lined up at the wooden lectern to speak in three-minute slots, many invoking the less-than-savory reputation man camps earned in Wyoming’s boom-and-bust past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

The attorney general faults OpenAI for failing to put in place stricter rules to verify users' ages, invoking legal statutes on deception and negligence.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

State solicitor W. H. Murdock advised store owners to order demonstrators to leave, and when they didn’t, have them arrested for trespassing, invoking the Royal Ice Cream case as a precedent.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson