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invoking
verb as in call upon
Example Sentences
King argued that Sophy’s proof of emotional distress “consists entirely of invoking the racist caricature that depicts Black men, like Young, as inherently violent.”
“We do, however, believe that invoking chaos, and trying to get us to kinda rattle in our boots, is the reason that they’re doing this.”
Trump has repeatedly criticized President Joe Biden's response to the deadly storm by invoking debunked claims about the federal response to the storm.
Vought laid out how his think tank is crafting the legal rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president broad power to use the military for domestic law enforcement.
Now he is invoking the Alien Enemies Act that was used to put Japanese Americans in concentration camps.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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