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verb

past tense of invalidate

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Recent Examples of invalidated
Adjective
In the following decades, lower courts invalidated classes as violating the establishment clause if the subject matter promoted Christianity – teaching it as religious truth rather than discussing the Bible’s literary and historical qualities. Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 29 June 2026 The ballot measure would have required special taxes approved by local governments to receive two-thirds support from voters to go into effect — and invalidated previous tax increases that hadn’t met that threshold. Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026 Other land-use decisions may also be invalidated, including designation of the BLM’s Areas of Critical Environmental Concern intended to benefit big-game habitat security, or watershed protections intended to conserve native fish species. Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026 Sánchez argues that ballots cast by Peruvians abroad should be invalidated because the government, at the request of the Foreign Ministry, eliminated digital transmission of runoff results, requiring tally sheets to be physically transported to Lima. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026 Ashely also now argued, for the first time, that the UPEPA violated her constitutional right to a jury trial (the previous Minnesota Anti-SLAPP law had been invalidated years earlier for this very reason). Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026 But in its ruling, the Supreme Court sided with Pitchford, clearing the way for his conviction to be invalidated. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 May 2026 Piper, the former election official, said the recent map changes also increase the chance of administrative errors, like a voter getting the wrong ballot, which can make invalidated votes more likely. Miles Parks, NPR, 14 May 2026 The map the Supreme Court invalidated had two majority-black seats and Republicans hope to reduce the advantage for Democrats in at least one of the seats. Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Verb
Then, in 2014, the Supreme Court invalidated the limit on the amount of money a donor could contribute to federal candidates in a two-year election cycle. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2026 Earlier this year, courts also invalidated Democratic redistricting efforts in Virginia and New York that were aimed at the midterm elections, though Democrats could try again there before the 2028 elections. ABC News, 29 June 2026 The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has warned that people can easily obtain fakes; in 2010, Puerto Rico invalidated all its existing birth certificates, citing rampant fraud and identity theft. Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 In 1996, a federal trial court in Mississippi invalidated Bible study classes taught in a rotation with music, physical education and library courses, plus another called A Biblical History of the Middle East. Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 29 June 2026 An Oregon environmental group is suing the Department of the Interior to stop a timber sale in the Coast Range because Congress invalidated the BLM resource management plan that would have ordinarily guided the sale of about 1,300 acres of timber in sensitive salmon-rearing habitat. Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026 Two years ago, the court upheld a law preventing domestic abusers from owning guns; a lower court had invalidated the law before the high court intervened. Nina Totenberg, NPR, 25 June 2026 But in 2024, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge invalidated the law, ruling that the state, not the city, has jurisdiction over petroleum production. Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026 With regard to the current Section 301 probe and the potential of levying stickier double-digit duties than those invalidated by the Supreme Court earlier this year, the USTR is due to make a decision by mid-July’s deadline. Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
Adjective
  • Departing employees consistently cited feeling unsupported and uncertainty about healthcare costs as primary factors.
    Jennifer Schaefer, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Nseyo notes there are plenty of unsupported myths around what causes UTIs, so stick to these tips.
    Alexandra Frost, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Justices found Yoon violated Cabinet members’ deliberation rights, falsified and destroyed the martial law proclamation, and used security forces to obstruct his arrest before lawmakers swiftly repealed the decree.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • However, the City Council at the time repealed the measure and called it unworkable.
    Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
Adjective
  • Yoon, who faces other criminal cases as well, has promoted unsubstantiated election fraud claims circulated on YouTube to defend his botched power grab and rally conservative supporters against the Democrats.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • In spite of the rhetoric and unsubstantiated claims, highways don’t equal economic development.
    Pete Harrison, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • In 2014, Pope Francis abolished the future use of the monsignor title — which denotes a specific honor — for most priests.
    Vivian Wilson, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026
  • Beijing eventually increased the limit to two children in 2015, then abolished the policy entirely in 2021.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 July 2026
Adjective
  • As for the ambiguous finale, Hall and Bravo have similar, but slightly different views on it.
    Reshma Gopaldas, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
  • Much of what couples experience as conflict is, on closer inspection, a disagreement about which interpretation of an ambiguous event is the correct one, and that disagreement is rarely settled by appeals to trust.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Verb
  • Broiling conditions have severely tested the continent’s infrastructure, with some trains delayed or cancelled as extreme temperatures risk warping the metal tracks.
    Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
  • During his years in exile, Osip Mandelstam was denied the right to work for any publication or publishing house; translation jobs were cancelled, his writing went unpublished.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Adjective
  • But their relationship remains undefined, and kind of over after Carter drunkenly ruins Beulah's big party.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The top players’ form is patchy or simply undefined.
    Ava Wallace, New York Times, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • The union argued the March judgment is still in effect because no court has put it on hold or overturned it.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
  • The restrictions were overturned late last month following weeks of discussions that led to Anthropic creating additional cybersecurity safeguards for its technology.
    Lorelei Smillie, Fortune, 9 July 2026

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“Invalidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidated. Accessed 11 Jul. 2026.

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