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“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

This causal chain is why brokers and real-estate agents often invoke future Fed moves to try to spur their clients into action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

"But we intend to call several of the law enforcement officers present in the courtroom, and I would like to invoke the rule of sequestration."

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

FlightAware has claimed Kalshi continues to solicit bets using its data and repeatedly invokes the FlightAware mark, which is why it is seeking a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The very history he so powerfully invokes to explain the 14th Amendment’s origins often becomes, in his jurisprudence, a reason to limit rather than enlarge its reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

The Philippines invokes its geographical proximity to the Spratly Islands as the main basis of its claim for part of the grouping.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Revised wording no longer explicitly invokes Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows the Security Council to authorize armed force to restore peace.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 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 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

Twisha's family lawyer Ankur Pandey told BBC Hindi that since the CBI has invoked sections related to abetment to suicide, "it means that the investigation has considered the death to be an alleged suicide".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Both of Thursday’s decisions invoked the high court’s future stake in the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The DOJ invoked the presumption of regularity and argued his arrest was part of an anti-terrorism dragnet, which the judge threw out.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Then Eumaios echoed him, and invoked the gods, and prayed that his great-minded master should return.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

When Sen. Alan Simpson quotes from “Othello” in defense of Thomas, he uses Shakespeare’s lyrical authority but fails to realize that he is in fact invoking the false words of the tragedy’s villain, Iago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

In July, invoking the never-before-used Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, it said it would impose new tariffs on a range of Canadian goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

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

I found a way around that by invoking his wife.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez