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  1. v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evoke.

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  • “To Orlando Sentinel columnist David D. Porter, the term evokes a "goose-stepper cadence.”

    USA Today: After 9/11: 50 dates that quietly changed America

  • “Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in "Don't Tread on Me" T-shirts.”

    NYT > Global Home

  • “Just the word evokes a response in most people, whether it be excitement, curiosity, anger, sadness, or a host of other feelings.”

    The Huffington Post: Stephanie J. Stiavetti: Holly Heyser: The Philosophical Huntress

  • “To Esther the word evokes images of butterfly migrations; desert nomads rolling up tents; the long, unpinned chevrons of geese that pass over the house in autumn.”

    Simon & Schuster: Memory Wall

  • “But the most familiar sense of the word ‘Gothic’ is to be found in pop culture, where the term evokes principally the gothic novel or short story: an expression that should instantly bring to mind tales of vampires and werewolves, ghosts and goblins; nubile virgins in white nightdresses screaming their attractive heads off while telltale hearts beat beneath lace bodices and creaky floorboards.”

    Archive 2009-09-01

  • “Pension or "demi-pension": the term evokes quaint 1920's France, when expats like M.F.K.”

    rongeur - French Word-A-Day

  • “For many people, the term evokes an image of a scraggly misfit living in the woods with his gun collection, a few marijuana plants, some dogeared Ayn Rand titles, and a battered pickup truck plastered with bumper stickers reading "Taxes = Theft" and "FDR Was A Pinko.”

    Archive 2007-09-01

  • “More than anything the title evokes computer games and this comparison highlights the film's problem.”

    Versus (2000)

  • “In Beijing, the term evokes the necessity of wrestling against the influence of the United States and its allies.”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

  • “If the title evokes Jack Nicholson's crazed face, you're perhaps not far off.”

    NYT > Home Page

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