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Is invite really a noun?
Yes. Some people feel strongly that the role of invite should be restricted to that of verb, but the English language changes and grows according to its own peculiar whims, and not those of people who write angry letters to dictionaries. The process whereby a word changes its part of speech is called functional shift, and there are tens of thousands of words which have done this. Some of them just bother people more than others, and invite (along with gift and friend, which have changed in the opposite direction) is one that attracts considerable opprobrium.
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Examples of invite in a Sentence
Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
Pawnee House Having dinner at this chic but down-to-earth Oak Bluffs eatery feels like being invited over for a meal by your coolest friends.
—Jennifer Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
The series invites us to bear witness to the Asian American experience and explore how art builds community.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024
Our disastrous experience with the war on drugs invites us to recover a sense of constitutional possibility.
—David Pozen, TIME, 25 Apr. 2024
California All this rain could invite mosquitoes into your backyard.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
After the transformers paper was released in 2017, deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton invited Gomez to join his Toronto lab, where Gomez met Nick Frosst; the pair would go on to found Cohere with fellow Google alum Ivan Zhang.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024
Paul invited me and Peter to his house in Sussex for the weekend.
—Steve Knopper, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2024
The editorial was photographed by Steven Klein, who invited the designer to a dinner for his new book.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024
The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2024
In years past, Camilla would leave the festivities in the afternoon to spend time with her son Tom Parker Bowles, daughter Laura Lopes and their children, so the idea of an invite would bring everyone together.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
In the first episode, Carmichael confessed to having a crush on his longtime friend, Tyler, the Creator (who later laughed off his confession and declined his invite to the 2022 Emmys).
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2024
The arrangement is not so different than the one for which Nick Ahmed signed up for with the Giants, finalizing a minor-league contract with an invite to spring training on Monday to back up and mentor 22-year-old rookie top prospect Marco Luciano.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
However, desert goers must snag an invite in order to attend (keep an eye on 818 Tequila's Instagram for a chance to win).
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
Sending a casual invite with a deadline doesn’t seem very personable.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
Instead, the focus should be on whether those sending out the invites are selecting the right creators for the job.
—Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
Pomeranz, who is in camp as a non-roster invite, has not allowed a run in either of his two outings.
—Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 29 Feb. 2024
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“Invite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invite. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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