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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

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

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

The government could invoke emergency mediation powers to halt industrial action and trigger mediation if it is deemed a threat to the national economy.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

I’m waiting for the phrase that will invoke it.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

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 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

Revised wording no longer explicitly invokes Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows the Security Council to authorize armed force to restore peace.

From Barron's ● 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

The DOJ invoked the presumption of regularity and argued his arrest was part of an anti-terrorism dragnet, which the judge threw out.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda, meanwhile, invoked the viral protest catchphrase "waste-guna-huiya" - a deliberately nonsensical meme popularised during the demonstrations - to poke fun at the government.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The complaint invoked Minnesota’s “inviolable sovereign authority” and its duty to ensure the “health, education, and safety” of residents.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Billy Smith—his hair loose, wearing a dress, and barefoot after discarding his low-heel pumps—danced the woman invoked in the song.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

We invoked it in stating that if we had 367 people gathered together, we could be certain that at least two had the same birthday.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

He told the panel he was invoking the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution under the advice of his attorneys.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

He also emphasized that invoking the Fifth Amendment was a protected right that must be "respected."

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

You may remember the president invoking it repeatedly in California, after 2018’s deadly Camp Fire and during last year’s Palisades burns.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

If he was ordained, he would defy the edict, invoking the tenth commandment, which clearly said he was beholden to no laws beyond the ten—including any edicts levied by the Scythedom.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman