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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invoke.

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Examples

  • Apologies if the title invokes images of Mr. Spiggott spigot by name, spigot by nature, but as this is the first of three planned trips, might as well do what I can to disambiguate them, as they say.

    2007 UK Tour (Leg One) K. A. Laity 2007

  • While the mere mention of the word invokes the image of suicide bombers in the Western imagination, it's important to bear in mind that the First Intifada began as a non-violent uprising comprised of civil disobedience, strikes, and boycotts of Israeli goods.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mya Guarnieri 2011

  • The very mention of his name invokes his myth and unleashes an insurmountable amount of minutiae about the meaning of every word he ever uttered, wrote, or sang.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The title invokes her propensity to turn on the waterworks.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • The title invokes theatre for children but in every other regard Duncan Graham's drama is brutally adult.

    unknown title 2009

  • The title invokes theatre for children but in every other regard Duncan Graham's drama is brutally adult.

    unknown title 2009

  • On Saturday, I participated in a kaffeeklatch with a writer I admire, Richard Larson, then continued on with him to see the associational because its title invokes a fantastic creature movie Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which he liked overall a bit more than I did, but which I nonetheless thought was certainly worth seeing.

    Strange Horizons, WFC, Etc. 2007

  • On Saturday, I participated in a kaffeeklatch with a writer I admire, Richard Larson, then continued on with him to see the associational because its title invokes a fantastic creature movie Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which he liked overall a bit more than I did, but which I nonetheless thought was certainly worth seeing.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Henry committed an illicit act; Vargas' title invokes the cleansing one's self of the taint of such an act.

    Kick this ball clean from my hand: Which crime novel best represents the World Cup? Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • McCain invokes fake mentally disabled suicide bom ...

    McCain invokes fake "mentally disabled suicide bomber" story 2008

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