invoked

Example Sentences

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The weather has not been severe enough for the heat policy to be invoked this year, but almost all the players have been using cooling mechanisms during matches.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

No document was invoked more often during that long struggle for equality.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

When called back to testify, Fuhrman invoked the 5th Amendment, refusing to answer questions about whether he had manufactured evidence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Goolsbee said the analogy from the 1990s tech boom that Warsh and others have invoked “is a little harder for me to understand.”

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

I was only aware that someone had invoked their right over the body of my son.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates