Example Sentences

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Compass is invoking that framework to defend a practice that does precisely the opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Here he is invoking another evangelical tradition by portraying himself as a commander who will fight a spiritual war on behalf of his congregation.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

Everyone is steeped in the very culture that he is invoking.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2025

As Sheinbaum aims to represent the president’s party and Gálvez fights for an opposition coalition’s nomination, each is invoking her gender and the glass ceiling she would shatter.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

When Leibniz declares the harmony of monads to be pre-established by God, he is invoking the image of intelligent human pre-arrangement.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.