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The values they invoke to denounce the West—democracy, equality, human rights—are very much part of that tradition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

In areas such as climate science, pandemics, artificial intelligence or medical research, public conversations frequently invoke scientific consensus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

“How dare you to invoke the names of Millet and Breton?”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

That, of course, includes the very Hindus whose beliefs Ramaswamy so frequently invokes.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 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

Democrat Xavier Becerra, the frontrunner to become the state’s next governor, often invokes the story of his parents’ humble beginnings as immigrants from Mexico who, through hard work, built happy and productive lives in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 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

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 magic, though, is in how present we feel in this invoked past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

And then, no matter how much Ranee objected, how many tears she cried, how she begged and invoked her husband's memory, the disaster came.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

Both stressed the importance of dialogue, with Xi invoking the concept of the Thucydides trap, a historical paradigm that holds that rising powers inevitably clash with established ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

But invoking it when it is plainly pretextual does.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Maxwell appeared virtually before the US House Oversight Committee in February this year but refused to answer questions, invoking her right to remain silent as she pleaded the Fifth Amendment.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Anya wondered if invoking his father’s name was going to cause trouble for Ivan’s family at all.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack