invocation

He has a well-documented history of trafficking in conspiracy theories himself, which made his ambiguous invocation of federal involvement a kind of implicit validation to conspiracy theorists that there might be more to the story.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Shot in only one day and clocking in around eight minutes, the final scene feels as much like a seance or invocation as a piece of drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

While neither of the “Devil Wears Prada” movies revolve around Christianity, the invocation of the devil taps into an older moral rhetoric.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

OpenAI’s app developer terms don’t guarantee discoverability, but the company said it is experimenting with ways to surface apps more directly within conversations, without explicit invocation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

“And we’re doing this for you and Reg and Shawna,” someone else said, a black kid behind him whose name Moss did not know but whom he recognized upon the invocation of Reg’s name.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Tina Brown called American Canto “absurdly pretentious,” wincing at its repeated invocations of Joan Didion’s unsettling Santa Ana winds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

Comparisons to the late-1990s dot-com bubble abound, as do invocations of the crash that followed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

It is clear from the context of her repeated invocations that she uses Venn diagrams to clarify complicated situations.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024

The extent to which this testimony negates the negative legal inferences one could draw from his first round of Fifth Amendment privilege invocations remains to be seen.

From Slate ● May 11, 2023

They spoke of finding-spells, and invocations, and those Answerable Questions which only the Master Patterner of Roke can ask.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin