invoked
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The article has only been invoked once before, when allies supported the U.S. following al Qaeda’s attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
It's led to questions about what Pakistan would do if Saudi Arabia joined the war and invoked the pact.
From BBC
The company first previewed Sora to the world two years ago, showing dreamlike landscapes conjured up by the technology that invoked the fantastical worlds of Hayao Miyazaki, or perhaps the surrealism of Salvador Dalí.
Companies have invoked AI in tens of thousands of layoffs in the last year, although some economists have suggested that another rationale for job cuts has been overhiring during the pandemic.
Because unlimited debate was the tradition of the Senate, cloture was invoked only five times in the first approximately 50 years of its existence.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
