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verb

past tense of invalidate

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Recent Examples of invalidated
Adjective
Residents say the developer is also seeking to have the agreement invalidated, arguing that the neighborhood association breached its terms. — Caroline Foreback, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 The ruling invalidated spending limits and led to the rise of super PACs (political action committees) in federal elections. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026 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
Verb
Later that night, Morgan calls Gillian to say Grann invalidated the prenup. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026 In September 2025, a federal judge agreed and invalidated the rule, called the risk adjustment data validation, or RADV, rule. — Tara Bannow, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026 Among them is a law passed by the Kansas legislature which retroactively invalidated the driver’s licenses of trans people and prohibited them from using rest rooms that align with their gender identity. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
Adjective
  • Nvidia has gone to great lengths to secure support from game publishers, but many titles remain unsupported at the time of writing.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2026
  • This case involved a restaurant owner accused of underreporting more than US$2 million in business receipts and claiming unsupported depreciation deductions on rental properties.
    — Kaitlin Newkirk, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Concerns over fatal accidents involving children helped turn public opinion against the infamous experiment, which Congress repealed within the year.
    — Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was supposed to force automatic Medicare cuts if spending exceeded target growth rates, was repealed in 2018 without ever becoming operational.
    — Dana P. Goldman, STAT, 22 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat and has made unsubstantiated accusations of election fraud.
    — MATTHEW LEE, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
  • While unsubstantiated rumors of Dykes’ ousting were flying, Baylor fired football coach Dave Aranda.
    — Mac Engel October 28, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Both Weir and Khan have expressed their wishes for the reinstatement of tax-free shopping (abolished in 2021) for overseas visitors — a proposal that was met with cheers at the BFC’s fashion week breakfast this year.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Daylight saving time was repealed after World War I and then brought back in World War II in 1942, only to be abolished again three years later.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • And Hawke shares why fans of the ambiguous ending to Paul Schrader’s 2018 religious drama, First Reformed, should thank Martin Scorsese.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Leadership can be complex and ambiguous; sport is refreshingly honest.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • All Boise High classes were canceled for the day, Boise School District spokesperson Ryan Hill told the Statesman in an email.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 30 Oct. 2026
  • They were told their Medicare Advantage plan was being canceled for next year.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Artificial intelligence is big, scary, exciting and more than just a little undefined.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Still, several categories in New York's law are broadly worded or undefined, Gluck said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Kaegi has regularly butted heads with board members over their appeals, which often overturned his valuations of big business buildings.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Traffic is flowing again in the northbound lanes of Route 55 in New Jersey after a tractor-trailer overturned in a crash.
    — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026

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“Invalidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidated. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.

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