- present participle of evoke.
evoking
Example Sentences
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That drew excitement from industry insiders, with some evoking a 2025 release from China's DeepSeek that shook assumptions of US dominance in AI.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Emi Martinez needed his right ring finger taped and treated in the warm-up - evoking memories of Nigel Spink replacing Jimmy Rimmer after just nine minutes in the '82 final.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
A violin floats between the guitars, evoking country earthiness with an elegiac tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Perhaps evoking an oft-quoted Didion quote: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
Their faces possessed the power of evoking in me a million memories that I longed to forget, and instead of my leaving drawing me to them in communion, it had flung me forever beyond them.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
