How to Use invalidate in a Sentence

invalidate

verb

• The study invalidates earlier theories.
• At the one end, the court could agree and invalidate the whole thing.
  — The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2020
• The lawsuit asked a judge to invalidate votes cast at the drive-thru sites.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2020
• Does the failure of the latter invalidate the salience of the former?
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
• Even a tiny sip of water or a puff of smoke is enough to invalidate the fast.
  — Niniek Karmini, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
• The local coalition of business groups sued the city last year to invalidate the law.
  — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 11 Mar. 2020
• The Supreme Court is likely to invalidate at least some of what Trump and Musk are doing.
  — Leah Litman, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
• Their lawsuit asks a judge to invalidate the portion of the law that would affect them.
  — Don Thompson, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• Courts would be asked to invalidate the bans; and there could be legal battles over that.
  — Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
• Democrats want to steal the election and invalidate the will of the American people.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
• Democrats want to steal the election and invalidate the will of the American people.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
• The repeal didn’t invalidate the sign permits issued under the 2023 law, so PAMM was free to turn on the sign this week.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
• Musk has said that high bot numbers would be grounds to invalidate the initial deal.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 June 2022
• The central claim of the complaint is a breach of duty by Rie’s lawyer, which could invalidate the agreement if affirmed by the court.
  — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 2 July 2019
• The district then filed a lawsuit against Disney in state court to invalidate the deal.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Since a naked male robot might invalidate the film’s PG rating, Brian gives him trousers and a very large dress shirt.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
• The elder Laws went to court asking a judge to invalidate Grayeyes’ victory and lost.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• If a court rules the board has violated the state’s Sunshine Laws, then the court may invalidate all the vote-counting the board has done so far and force it to start over.
  — Andrew Pantazi, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020
• That action, the lawsuit says, would invalidate the ballot rather than count it.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 11 Nov. 2020
• The agreement is at the heart of a lawsuit Mayorga filed in state court in 2018 seeking to invalidate the agreement.
  — Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• Let’s not do a preemptive strike in invalidating the will of the voters.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2019
• But the final straw came when the court’s ruling forced the county to invalidate all cannabis licenses.
  — Adam Elmahrek, Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• The counterclaim sought to invalidate Nike’s trademark for the shoe and move the trademark for the Air Force 1 into the public domain.
  — Ann Gehan, Dallas News, 11 July 2021
• The case demands that the high court invalidate the states’ 62 total Electoral College votes.
  — Author: Nomaan Merchant, Alanna Durkin Richer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2020
• But that ruling had the effect of expanding the ban, and the challengers are looking to invalidate the entire law.
  — Greg Stohr, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2020
• That process could be enough to either invalidate the rule or delay things long enough to get past that 6-month period.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2021
• As a result, Saugus has asked the state Land Court to invalidate the special permit Lynn granted the company to open a pot shop there.
  — Felicia Gans, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
• That suit, which sought to invalidate as many as 1.5 million mail-in ballots, was dismissed by courts.
  — CBS News, 11 June 2022
• The first guidance essentially invalidated the collective business model and allowed for any deal from a collective to be denied.
  — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 31 July 2025
• In 2021, California courts invalidated Proposition B on procedural grounds — because the city had not met and conferred with labor unions before placing it on the ballot.
  — John J Roach Iii, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025