Example Sentences

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His signal contribution seems to have been invoking his former federal title to bully complaining customers into submission.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2018

And she and her defenders have been invoking it for years:

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2016

I have been invoking that contingency so long and so unavailingly that it has lost a large portion of its pristine appeal.

From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel