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Other employees report repeated invocations of empathy from upper management in staff meetings, but little training on how to implement it with those they supervise.

From Time

This new Springsteen on Broadway—a slight reimagining for a grand reopening—is not so much a reflection of what we’ve lost as an invocation to step boldly toward all that’s left to be found.

From Time

Either way, the earnest invocation of an idealized politician being either a stacked savior or a wine-sipping bestie makes a mockery of the idea that politicians are nothing more than fellow citizens chosen for a short time to serve the public good.

Recall the right-wing invocation of “Flight 93” in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

In order for you to call this service from Google Sheets it must allow unauthenticated invocations.

That word “denialism” is particularly profane, with its unsubtle invocation of the Holocaust.

Feminists should be concerned about the invocation of traditional roles.

I was asked by then President-elect Obama to deliver the invocation at the opening inaugural event.

When science was young, the invocation of miracles was commonplace.

This “promiscuous” invocation of religious freedom would deny equal rights to those with different religious convictions—or none.

Therefore the principal object of our invocation of the saints ought to be the obtaining of their help in following their example.

Country folk, journeying by the street below, looked up with lips that whispered invocation.

The invocation, "Queen conceived without the stain of original sin," was added to the Litany of Loreto.

But what of the love, however expressed, in the lyrical invocation to the brown liqueur?

A final howl of invocation resulted in complete failure, whereupon it was decided that Baal-Zeboub had business elsewhere.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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