invalid
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Bar-licensed attorneys have also tried to fast-track the system, filing invalid for asylum or lawful permanent residency applications for unknowing clients.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
Bellows, now Maine’s secretary of state and a gubernatorial candidate, recently struck the question from the ballot due to invalid signatures, a decision that’s now in court.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 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
Caroline said nothing, letting her body drift down into Ma’s arms as though she were an invalid.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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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
It seemed as though notables must be fed to her, much as invalids are spooned their jelly; and though titles were preferred by her, any face once seen in a social paper served as well.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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Getting invalided out of the 2017 Lions tour caused him untold angst.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023
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
Here, not long after, Medwin fell ill, and was six weeks invalided in their house.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But he was of those who do not take kindly to invaliding.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
Sent back by me eventually to Korogwe with a letter advising his invaliding out of the country, he opened and read my report upon the way.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 Frederick Marryat
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