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While most states now have some kind of computer-crime laws, those laws often go uninvoked, largely because such crimes are still rare and prosecutors have little experience with them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The phantoms of the past are dead for thee; So let them ever uninvoked remain, And be thou calm, till death shall set thee free.

From Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by Aytoun, W. E. (William Edmondstoune)

Haply there was a body of demigods, as yet uninvoked, who should speedily settle all that.

From The Story of a Mine by Harte, Bret

The shadowy companions who stood ever between him and solitude remained uninvoked.

From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

This angel was out of repair; and some suspicions were entertained that he designed visiting, uninvoked, the surface of the earth.

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various