invoked
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The judge said the US government had invoked two conventions to secure Marimi's appearance in a US court.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
This was not the first time he had invoked Russia.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
After the U.S. dropped atomic bombs to end World War II, the New York Times invoked Old Testament language when writing that the technology had “sowed the whirlwind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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
—William Cowper Innumeracy, Freud, and Pseudoscience Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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