invoke
Example Sentences
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Two defendants invoke the former, while members of the church that was the target of protest invoke the latter.
Since becoming the party’s propaganda minister in 2022, Li has championed Xi’s program to invoke Chinese arts, traditions and history to justify Communist rule and boost Beijing’s soft power.
Inappropriately invoking an overused parable might make Mr. Carney sound clever, but it shows a lack of deep thinking.
Instead, he has more generically invoked the example of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who in the mid-1990s held off on raising interest rates as the economy expanded steadily because inflation pressures were mild.
The title invokes the container for holding scalding liquid metal.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
