invocation

Example Sentences

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Any invocation of the act will almost certainly be challenged in court.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

In a very modern invocation of the swords-to-plowshares principle, he has evidently told Ukrainian officials that its demobbed soldiers could soon be earning Silicon Valley-level salaries operating American data centers in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

“It is far from clear,” Lederman writes, that any such obstruction of federal law has occurred in Chicago that would warrant the act’s invocation.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025

The ovation had the character not of high-pitched cheering but of an involuntary low-pitched invocation of wonderment, even disbelief.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

It was a simple invocation of hope, a call to persist.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama