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invoke

[in-vohk] / ɪnˈvoʊk /




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Their calculations suggest that cosmic acceleration could emerge naturally from Einstein's equations, potentially eliminating the need to invoke mysterious dark energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The ads don’t invoke climate concerns or hint at hard choices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

There’s no need to invoke any special parapsychological abilities; the ordinariness of apparently predictive dreams does not need any ex plaining.

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

Mr. Mansour invokes free-market competition while seeking a different regulatory framework for his version of sports betting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

As evidence, he invokes, throughout the book, numerous instances of one nation waging war on another, or assisting U.S. forces against rival tribes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Shylock’s pound of flesh invokes this divine commandment, which would have been familiar to everyone in early modern Europe as governments began using bonds as financial instruments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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

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 statistical findings in the studies invoked by petitioners are extraordinarily disturbing,” Bonta wrote in his reply to the order in August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Some had invoked Susan B. Anthony’s opposition to the 15th Amendment, which extended voting rights to Black men but not women.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

She says she has faced a coordinated smear campaign against her, which has at times invoked her son's death and accusations that she is betraying his memory.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The presidents of Romania and Bulgaria are due to discuss today whether Article 4 of the Nato treaty should be invoked.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The room went dead quiet, people looking at Aunt Susie as if she’d invoked the name of some evil spirit.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Raman accused Bass of twisting her words, but later apologized for invoking Gates’ name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

He framed his confrontation with Tshisekedi as a fight against authoritarianism, invoking Section 64 of the constitution, which calls on citizens to resist anyone who seizes power or exercises it in violation of constitutional provisions.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

The researchers argue that this instability may offer a natural route to accelerated cosmic expansion without adding a cosmological constant or invoking dark energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

But invoking it when it is plainly pretextual does.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Barred by law from invoking race explicitly, those committed to racial hierarchy were forced to search for new means of achieving their goals according to the new rules of American democracy.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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