invocation

Example Sentences

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Still, the mere invocation of license revocation has a powerful chilling effect.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

And this invocation to keep moving reveals something about the chapel’s architecture—its dynamism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Forty-plus years later, I regularly attend the monthly town council meeting in our adopted hometown of Fries, in southwest Virginia, and my favorite part is the opening invocation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

But in its repeated invocation of the contrarian report, it violated the most basic scientific norms.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2025

An entire team mobilized instantly at the invocation of Lucky Girl’s name.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi