invoke
Example Sentences
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“If it were invoked now, we would be in uncharted waters,” Dickinson said.
The Insurrection Act has been invoked only a few dozen times in U.S. history, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a public-policy think tank.
He questioned why Mitchell did not testify at the hearing and invoked legislative privilege dozens of times during a deposition ahead of the hearing.
From Los Angeles Times
The production invoked the historical paintings of Hildegard’s visions as well as modern interpretations of them, using videos in which swirling specks of colored light coalesced into figures.
Famed for predicting the housing market crash and a vocal skeptic of the AI boom, Michael Burry is now invoking one of the world’s most famous investors to add gravitas to his argument.
From MarketWatch
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