invoke
Example Sentences
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"Pray, invoke Almighty God and hope that your prayers will be answered," he told the worshippers.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
He said he would invoke the Defense Production Act, allowing the government to use Anthropic's products as it saw fit.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, wrote that there was no need to invoke “major questions” in this case.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2026
All of these observations closely match what the two-vector MR model predicts, without the need to invoke spin-current-based mechanisms.
From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026
He thought for a moment of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” but decided it wasn’t a good idea to invoke the military.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing invoke
Latin Love, Vol I: vocare
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
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