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On Saturday at UFC 332 in Salt Lake City, Cong will be hoping she can invoke the same emotions in Brazilian Natalia Silva, when the pair fight for the vacant flyweight world title.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Renting forever doesn’t invoke a lot of confidence in our future finances,” Mortensen said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

In areas such as climate science, pandemics, artificial intelligence or medical research, public conversations frequently invoke scientific consensus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 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

That, of course, includes the very Hindus whose beliefs Ramaswamy so frequently invokes.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

Shylock’s pound of flesh invokes this divine commandment, which would have been familiar to everyone in early modern Europe as governments began using bonds as financial instruments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Democrat Xavier Becerra, the frontrunner to become the state’s next governor, often invokes the story of his parents’ humble beginnings as immigrants from Mexico who, through hard work, built happy and productive lives in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The self-described "anarcho-capitalist" invokes the "creative destruction" theory of US-Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter to describe how old industries inevitably fold in the face of innovation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 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

The magic, though, is in how present we feel in this invoked past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The presidents of Romania and Bulgaria are due to discuss today whether Article 4 of the Nato treaty should be invoked.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The declaration, invoked under two articles of Pakistan's constitution dealing with security, grants the federal government sweeping administrative powers over the province.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Article 5—an attack against one member is an attack against all—was invoked for the first and only time in NATO’s history on Sept. 12, 2001.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Impossible because only one coven of the eight who’d invoked the clause in the history of the Twelve Towns had solved it.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

But invoking it when it is plainly pretextual does.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

The majestic costumes of Catarina Copelli, invoking a rich brocaded world on the brink of disappearance, might be the real superstar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The eccentric executive cast his criticism as friendly, invoking the French proverb "qui aime bien chatie bien" -- spare the rod, spoil the child.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

Thales attempted to understand the world without invoking the intervention of the gods.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan