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try to evoke

verb as in fish for

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The Earthshot name for the prizes is an echo of the "Moonshot" ambition of US president John F Kennedy, from a speech in 1962, and it will try to evoke some of the optimism of the era of the young president.

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I have worked in beauty for a long time, and I love the emotions that beauty brands try to evoke.

I’d probably try to evoke the staticky, faintly metallic experience of licking a CRT monitor.

The show’s notes spoke of a “strange beauty” and “cinematic vignettes” that this collection would try to evoke.

“We try to evoke the same humor but in different ways,” Tobly said, “and surprise people with things they notice about the show but never really internalized.”

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

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