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"The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," Judge Rita Lin said in a 59-page decision seen by AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

He has a well-documented history of trafficking in conspiracy theories himself, which made his ambiguous invocation of federal involvement a kind of implicit validation to conspiracy theorists that there might be more to the story.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Shot in only one day and clocking in around eight minutes, the final scene feels as much like a seance or invocation as a piece of drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

While neither of the “Devil Wears Prada” movies revolve around Christianity, the invocation of the devil taps into an older moral rhetoric.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Ged lay sprawled on his back, his arms flung out as if they yet kept the wide gesture of welcome and invocation.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The event included interfaith invocations, musical performances and block party-style celebrations along Broadway’s “Canyon of Heroes,” drawing attention to the city’s cultural and political diversity.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026

Tina Brown called American Canto “absurdly pretentious,” wincing at its repeated invocations of Joan Didion’s unsettling Santa Ana winds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

Comparisons to the late-1990s dot-com bubble abound, as do invocations of the crash that followed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

The extent to which this testimony negates the negative legal inferences one could draw from his first round of Fifth Amendment privilege invocations remains to be seen.

From Slate ● May 11, 2023

The ceremony continued for some time, with more perambulations and exchanges of secret passwords and hand signs, more invocations and singing, until C.P. found himself at last standing before the large central altar.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson