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invalid

[in-vuh-lid] / ˈɪn və lɪd /




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Even if your grandmother changed her will because she was tired of arguing with your father, that doesn’t automatically make the change legally or morally invalid.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Approval was then reversed after a review by Maine’s secretary of state found more than 12,500 signatures invalid for reasons ranging from duplicate signatures to signatories not matching local registration rolls.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Fifa also warns that tickets bought via other routes "may be invalid and may be subject to cancellation without notice".

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

But an Alberta judge shut down the process, saying the citizens' initiative was invalid because the separatists had failed to consult with Indigenous groups whose rights could be threatened if the province separated from Canada.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

The secretary toppled into a chair next to the invalid before he could reply.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

Patient outcomes varied depending on whether you asked the officer who lost fighters, the ferryman who shuttled the sick, the doctor who treated invalids or the adjutant who buried bodies.

From Scientific American Jul. 23, 2022

British food manufacturers and brother duo James and William Horlick created malted milk powder as a nutritional supplement marketed for "infants and invalids."

From Salon Aug. 21, 2021

Wealthy invalids flocked to the south Devon town for its sunshine and sea air.

From The Guardian Feb. 15, 2021

Tuesday's voting was reserved for the aged, invalids, people in hospitals and the military.

From Fox News Apr. 26, 2019

By this time, Vincent and McNeish were complete invalids and stayed in the cave in a stupor.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Last August, the U.S. military’s top appeals court upheld Bergdahl’s conviction, rejecting arguments that public comments by Trump and McCain should have invalided his prosecution, Military.com reported.

From Fox News Feb. 18, 2021

In 1941 he enlisted in the US Navy but was invalided out two years later because of injury and, in November 1943, he married his former classmate Diana Dill.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2020

He knows that the old songs give “the invalided and senile a musical opportunity to re-court their wives, re-raise their children and re-fight their wars.”

From New York Times Sep. 21, 2017

Soon he was back in the trenches, but then invalided home where he got classified B-1, “fit for garrison service abroad”.

From The Guardian Nov. 28, 2016

The night was dark and stormy, and Father Mackonochie had been for some time somewhat invalided, and as time passed the Bishop became increasingly anxious.

From The Animal Story Book by Various

There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next in seniority was entirely adverse to the invaliding, as, without he could invalide too, he would have to go to the West Indies in the place of our surgeon.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

It may correct some errors, and prepare you for next invaliding day.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

But he was of those who do not take kindly to invaliding.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Dolbey, Robert Valentine

The aspirant for invaliding sat himself down again at one end of the table, as the captains did at the other.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick




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