invoke
Example Sentences
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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
Shirin worries about a suspended prison sentence which the secret police could invoke at any time.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
The irony is that defenders of the president invoke just-war theory, which originates with St. Augustine’s efforts to reconcile Christian teaching with the use of force, to justify the U.S. military intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Tigers are so feared in Bangladesh's vast Sundarban mangroves that locals invoke spirits to protect against them.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing invoke
Latin Love, Vol I: vocare
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
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