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Here I should mention that we’re sitting down the hill from her house, designed by architect Rudolph Schindler, but I’m worried that will evoke so much envy that you’ll stop reading.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

There is a common misconception that bringing up suicide will evoke these thoughts in others, which is simply not true.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2024

Another option is to create virtual backgrounds that will evoke these types of professional settings.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

The Joe Brazil Legacy Band specifically will evoke part of that history.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2023

But any one knowing me well, or knowing any one well, could say almost certainly what associations “canal” would have—what thought it will evoke.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur