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[in-vuh-lid] / ˈɪn və lɪd /




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In his opinion, “concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part,” Kavanaugh first agreed with the majority that the executive order’s limitations on birthright citizenship are invalid.

From Slate Jul. 15, 2026

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

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

Of course, there are assumptions underlying these phrases which are invalid or meaningless without clarification.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

If you are one of those who don't need Vegemite medicinally, the thousands of invalids and babies are asking you to deny yourself of it for the time being.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2023

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

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

There were many tables with empty places or invalids who had once been as strong as horses, but the sun continued to rise.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

In the midst of it, the wonder boy Joseph Suaalii smashed Tuipulotu in the tackle, but invalided himself out of the game as a consequence.

From BBC Nov. 24, 2024

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

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

Just as Connie Willis salutes the resilience of Brits in her fiction about England during World War II, Kowal pays similar tribute in this novel through her depiction of grandmotherly Mrs. Richardson and invalided Lt.

From Seattle Times Sep. 4, 2016

The doctors delivered their ultimatum, and he became one of the many who, weakened by the terrible exposure, were invalided home.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A number of medical officers convened to examine sick and wounded officers and men, for invaliding or discharge.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

This was the first time Aubrey had been considered in condition for such festivities, and the gratification of being superior to somebody might account for his glee in invaliding his friend.

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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




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