- present participle of invoke.
invoking
Example Sentences
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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
Maxwell appeared virtually before the US House Oversight Committee in February this year but refused to answer questions, invoking her right to remain silent as she pleaded the Fifth Amendment.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
That seems like a decent rationale for invoking the corporate death penalty.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Hackney wrote her book against the specter of another: “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 bestselling memoir invoking Appalachian values by current Vice President JD Vance, who grew up outside that region in Middletown, Ohio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Thales attempted to understand the world without invoking the intervention of the gods.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
