invoke
Example Sentences
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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
By a more than two-thirds majority the Chamber of Deputies eliminated a rule that restricted the center-right president's leeway to invoke emergency measures, the chamber's speaker Roberto Castro announced.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
Very few of the questions focused on specific conflicts, and the candidates largely refrained from answering in concrete terms, preferring instead to invoke a commitment to the UN Charter.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
Powell said he hoped the models, made from recycled pallets, would invoke conversations about conservation.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 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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