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evoking

verb as in induce, stimulate

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District 11, refreshing with cucumber and yuzu juice, is meant to evoke trips she took to the market in Saigon.

These found elements are overlapped to evoke dream states and the subconscious mind.

Displayed in the Grand Salon, the work evokes enthusiastic, rippling waves or bright storm clouds pressed forward by strong winds.

The newest one, Spiced Cherry, is meant to evoke the same flavor profile and feeling as a classic Manhattan cocktail.

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That way, the heaving staccato pulses of “Theatre of Nature” begin to evoke the rah-rah of a celestial baseball game.

Scott, who died Sunday at 49, could go from evoking a Baptist preacher to quoting Public Enemy.

She toddled off to the playground, still jabbering to herself, evoking giggles from the Hawa staff.

It’s written in a ‘50s script, like the title card to I Love Lucy, evoking Old Hollywood.

Tarnoff is at his best in evoking the atmosphere of the city that shaped them all.

And Jagger is even better than Dylan at evoking the darker emotions: fear, confusion, paranoia, lust.

Bits of drawing caught his attention, a free, felicitous line here and there evoking an approving grunt.

But suddenly the string from whichxxv he has been evoking these broad harmonies snaps with a snarl.

He enjoyed humor, and though he had a happy way of evoking it from others, possessed or exhibited very little himself.

The stress laid on dreams appears to imply a practice of evoking spirits, whether of the deceased or of the living.

Within the city the emissaries of the Count of Paris were no more successful in evoking the martial ardor of the people.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to evoking, such as: invoke, recall, elicit, arouse, provoke, and conjure.

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

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