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verb

past tense of invalidate

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Recent Examples of invalidated
Adjective
The bill does not revive the invalidated San Diego ballot measure. Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026 Judges have already blocked or invalidated major portions of the initiative that conflict with state election law, leaving significant questions about whether its provisions can ever take effect. Drew Askeland, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026 The invalidated tariffs cost American households $1,000 each last year and $900 each this year, the nonprofit Tax Foundation reckoned. Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 While just around 3,000 of the 150,000 or so tests have been invalidated, all students – including those who, like Velázquez, are not suspected of cheating – have been left in limbo pending the result of UNAM’s investigation into the matter. Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026 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
Verb
Their death sentences were reduced to life in prison after the California Supreme Court invalidated the state's death penalty in 1972. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026 Now, the federal government has explicitly invalidated the latter. Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Between 1890 and 1936, using both horizontal and vertical review, the Court invalidated more than two hundred progressive statutes, state and federal. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Although the allegations became a significant controversy surrounding his political career, higher courts later invalidated key evidence in the investigation, and the criminal complaint against him was rejected in 2022. Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026 Earlier this year, the Virginia Supreme Court also invalidated a redistricting ballot measure because of procedural violations by state lawmakers. David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Judge James Wesley Hendrix out of the Northern District of Texas invalidated key components of the nearly 100-year-old National Firearms Act (NFA) in more than a dozen states. Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026 The four siblings had argued that the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 invalidated the agreement, but the judge said the EFAA didn’t apply retroactively. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2026 The Supreme Court of Virginia invalidated a statewide referendum approved by voters in April that would have drawn new districts favorable to Democrats. Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
Adjective
  • Educational technology products built on generative AI often make unsupported claims of improving young students' learning and critical thinking skills, according to an APA report co-authored by Barnes that published on Thursday.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Such accusations, while unsupported, undoubtedly place Magnus, a top Disney executive, in an uncomfortable position.
    Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • At the same time, the agency repealed rules that regulate climate pollution from vehicles, which had been passed under the Biden administration to shift the industry toward hybrid and electric cars and trucks.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • None of those leaps repealed the trade-off between cost, weight and strength, but each one moved the curve, leading to today when a rider can buy a combination of light and strong that no amount of money could have purchased a generation ago.
    Colby Proffitt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Somehow this unsubstantiated story became internationally known with almost no major media explicitly reporting it, and before the modern version of the internet.
    Allen Salkin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Some Democrats fear Trump could use those unsubstantiated assertions as a pretext to intervene in November.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In 2017, Alabama abolished judicial override and stopped allowing judges to change juries' sentencing decision in capital cases.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The practice − called judicial override − was abolished in Alabama in 2017 but the move did not apply to old cases.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The diabolical is ambiguous and often frankly sexy; the ridiculous is not.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Others require deep intelligence—analyzing complex financial information, generating code from ambiguous requirements or weighing competing factors.
    Nitin Gupta, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Netflix has canceled its drama series Sweet Magnolias after five seasons, but its showrunner and one of its lead actresses are also involved in a new show at the streamer.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The romantic drama starring JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott and Heather Headley has been canceled at Netflix after five seasons.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • In a matter of minutes, my past and my still-undefined future crystallized.
    Ayman M. Mohyeldin, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026
  • So a single article may include multiple policies, undefined acronyms or three different names for the same benefit across separate regions.
    Chakkry Arunachalam, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • If the review yields conclusive evidence that the original call was wrong, it gets overturned — and the coach retains the ability to challenge a second play later in the game.
    Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The tanker overturned and began leaking fuel onto the freeway.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026

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“Invalidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidated. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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