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[in-vohk] / ɪnˈvoʊk /




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On Saturday at UFC 332 in Salt Lake City, Cong will be hoping she can invoke the same emotions in Brazilian Natalia Silva, when the pair fight for the vacant flyweight world title.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Renting forever doesn’t invoke a lot of confidence in our future finances,” Mortensen said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

In areas such as climate science, pandemics, artificial intelligence or medical research, public conversations frequently invoke scientific consensus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

It’s hard to find any modern examples of the corporate death penalty, but that doesn’t mean critics of abusive business haven’t attempted to invoke it.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 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

That, of course, includes the very Hindus whose beliefs Ramaswamy so frequently invokes.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

Democrat Xavier Becerra, the frontrunner to become the state’s next governor, often invokes the story of his parents’ humble beginnings as immigrants from Mexico who, through hard work, built happy and productive lives in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Nicaragua invokes Germany's responsibility in connection to multiple violations of international law, particularly in respect of the odious scourge of genocide and international humanitarian law," ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez told the court.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

America’s patriotic song “America the Beautiful” invokes our spacious skies, our amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea.

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

The judge said the US government had invoked two conventions to secure Marimi's appearance in a US court.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

This was not the first time he had invoked Russia.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Yet Ms. Smialek notes that some British officials still invoked Malthus to justify withholding aid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The declaration, invoked under two articles of Pakistan's constitution dealing with security, grants the federal government sweeping administrative powers over the province.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

To ensure that when he thought of her, the child that he invoked would be accurate.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

But that deference cannot come simply from invoking the words national security.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

The majestic costumes of Catarina Copelli, invoking a rich brocaded world on the brink of disappearance, might be the real superstar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

PepsiCo is moving its $1.7 billion global media account to Publicis Groupe from Omnicom, invoking a desire to change its model “for the next era of marketing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Maxwell appeared virtually before the US House Oversight Committee in February this year but refused to answer questions, invoking her right to remain silent as she pleaded the Fifth Amendment.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

You cannot explain the behavior of matter—why gold gleams; why hydrogen combusts with oxygen—without invoking the atomic nature of matter.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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