evoke
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If an old girlfriend buys you a set of cocktail glasses from a flea market, those glasses will always evoke thoughts of that person.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
This unstable, indeterminate flickering sensation is what Mr. Lerner wants to evoke as he maneuvers his stories between the polarities of the real and the imaginary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The BBC has obtained footage and interviews from Tehran which evoke a city of strained nerves, of constant waiting for the next blast and relentless fear of the state security apparatus.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Just enough to evoke boats and long coasts.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
They see the life and the feeling that Vincent meant to evoke, of real people, in a family, with faults, eating around a table, peasant life, real life, unromanticized.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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