Example Sentences

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They noted that he had discussed his memo in media interviews with the permission of the president, though he was invoking the Fifth Amendment in speaking with investigators.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

Harkins was invoking "crisis standards of care," she said.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2022

Biden this week said he was invoking the Defense Production Act to increase supplies.

From Reuters • May 21, 2022

Marianne Williamson was invoking Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy and Thoreau, barefoot in a brownstone in Brooklyn.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2022

It was no heathen fetich he was invoking, but the God of whom he had often preached in Christian kirks.

From Prester John by Buchan, John