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invoking

verb as in call upon

verb as in put into effect

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Weird as the theory is, invoking “quantum physics” is not an escape clause from obeying physical laws.

Christie, who places a premium on the fact that he was cool in high school, sounds conservative memes without invoking the Divine.

If the policies aimed at “working mothers” are as empty as the prefix, the two parties may well end up regret invoking it.

But the same is true for Boko Haram and others of their kind when it comes to invoking Islam.

Any ad invoking that tragedy would have to be exquisitely sensitive and carefully crafted.

These saints hear the mother praying for her children, the wife invoking aid for her sick or absent husband.

Therefore let us have recourse to Mary, and invoking her aid bravely resist all temptations.

And a full hour later he was sitting by his bedside, his chin supported on his hands, and still invoking posterity.

Once he thought he caught her cry, despite the yells of the flying Moslems, who were invoking all the jinns to give them speed.

While each was giving some wild opinion or another, a faint voice issued from the bowels of the earth, invoking aid.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to invoking, such as: conjure, beseech, pray, request, beg, and importune.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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