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When he invoked the spirit of the angel Metatron, he would picture a white tiger destroying all the darkness and “demonic s—” around him.

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Cicero’s rhetoric would be echoed centuries later by Edmund Burke, who invoked Verres in his denunciation of Warren Hastings, the British governor general of India who was impeached for corruption in 1787.

In his first term, his top aides invoked the Monroe Doctrine to justify a tougher stance toward Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, and to warn China and Russia to stay out of the hemisphere.

The exchanges among several state-level leaders frequently invoked Nazi references, racial slurs and threats to political rivals.

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The ongoing chat follows users as they navigate the web and can be invoked at will.

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