Example Sentences

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The individual investors who perceived hedge funds as secretive, sinister market manipulators during the meme-stock craze of 2020-21 were invoking a deeply embedded meaning of the word “hedge” they might not have been aware of.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

She added that the police were "invoking mass disaster protocols".

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

He said that some of the world’s smallest nations were invoking the power of international law against major polluters.

From New York Times • May 21, 2024

And some were invoking words like “consequences” and “catastrophic,” he said, raising the possibility that they were anticipating or even planning real-world ramifications.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

They were invoking heaven in hymns of lamentation, in which all of them joined with tears.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de