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They invoke California laws that “encourage” employees to take new jobs – policies that are "credited with powering the tech revolution that has made companies based in this state the envy of the world."

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

When we tell ourselves stories about warrior elites—and invoke their iconography to inspire and galvanize—we often dismiss and ignore their victims as inconvenient or annoying footnotes.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

It did not explicitly invoke the unitary executive theory, but its fealty to the doctrine was clear.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

Porter’s death has become a rallying point for Los Angeles activists, who regularly invoke his name at Police Commission meetings and protests.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

I will uncover and invoke inclinations and aversions.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The very history he so powerfully invokes to explain the 14th Amendment’s origins often becomes, in his jurisprudence, a reason to limit rather than enlarge its reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

The Philippines invokes its geographical proximity to the Spratly Islands as the main basis of its claim for part of the grouping.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Second, the DOJ invokes the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and its requirement that all states must maintain a computerized, statewide voter registration list.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026

Revised wording no longer explicitly invokes Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows the Security Council to authorize armed force to restore peace.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

America’s patriotic song “America the Beautiful” invokes our spacious skies, our amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

She pointed to a New Jersey law that officials invoked to bar the editor of a local news outlet from publishing a police official’s home address.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Twisha's family lawyer Ankur Pandey told BBC Hindi that since the CBI has invoked sections related to abetment to suicide, "it means that the investigation has considered the death to be an alleged suicide".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Palantir technology chief Shyam Sankar are among other tech executives who have invoked it in recent public remarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

In the two decades since, Purcell has become one of election law’s most invoked doctrines.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

Now none remain, all having invoked commandment number seven.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Instead of invoking an internal decision maker, James proposes focusing directly on the interacting sensory and motor systems that generate behavior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

CEO Ernie Herrman took a seemingly different rhetorical tack on his company’s earnings call Wednesday by uttering “self-inflicted” twice and invoking an “execution issue” five times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

That seems like a decent rationale for invoking the corporate death penalty.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

The Giants might see an opportunity to get out from under the second year of his deal by invoking the “high-risk activities” language from the CBA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

One man may put it down to sun spots while another invoking the law of probabilities doesn’t believe it.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck