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Recent Examples of invalidated
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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
The invalidated map had included a second majority-black district, created after years of litigation under the Voting Rights Act.
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Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
2 May 2026
Anna Matranga,
CBS News,
18 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.
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Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
2 June 2026
The Supreme Court invalidated the country-by-country tariff rates Trump set by citing the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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Mae Anderson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
These investigations, launched after the Supreme Court invalidated earlier tariff measures, could serve a legitimate purpose.
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Richard W. Rahn,
Fortune,
27 May 2026
The 1965 Voting Rights Act effectively invalidated the superficially race-neutral schemes designed to deprive Black people of the vote.
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Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
The judge also invalidated the appointment of the current ACIP, all votes taken by it, and further meetings, until a trial.
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Jesse L. Goodman,
STAT,
18 May 2026
Republicans have opened up an advantage in a national redistricting battle among states after a pair of court rulings that weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minorities and invalidated a key Democratic redistricting effort.
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David A. Lieb,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
The most immediate fallout is unfolding in Louisiana, where the Supreme Court invalidated the state’s congressional map and forced officials to halt the May 16 House primaries.
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Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
2 May 2026
Adjective
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.
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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.
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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
The invalidated map had included a second majority-black district, created after years of litigation under the Voting Rights Act.
—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
2 May 2026
Verb
On Monday, a Milan court invalidated the will of Reggiani's mother, Silvana Barbieri, saying irregularities rendered the document legally void.
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Anna Matranga,
CBS News,
18 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
The Supreme Court invalidated the country-by-country tariff rates Trump set by citing the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
—
Mae Anderson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
These investigations, launched after the Supreme Court invalidated earlier tariff measures, could serve a legitimate purpose.
—
Richard W. Rahn,
Fortune,
27 May 2026
The 1965 Voting Rights Act effectively invalidated the superficially race-neutral schemes designed to deprive Black people of the vote.
—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
The judge also invalidated the appointment of the current ACIP, all votes taken by it, and further meetings, until a trial.
—
Jesse L. Goodman,
STAT,
18 May 2026
Republicans have opened up an advantage in a national redistricting battle among states after a pair of court rulings that weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minorities and invalidated a key Democratic redistricting effort.
—
David A. Lieb,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
The most immediate fallout is unfolding in Louisiana, where the Supreme Court invalidated the state’s congressional map and forced officials to halt the May 16 House primaries.
—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
2 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
Adjective
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Plants supported by a trellis or cage can be spaced closer together than unsupported plants, as their growth is directed upward.
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And in a political climate where unsupported conspiracies about election fraud can run rampant on social media — pushed, at times, by top political leaders — some fear the slow vote count is becoming a liability.
Verb
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Carrera can now only afford to take only one or two classes a semester after his in-state tuition was repealed.
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The extension is expected to generate approximately $925,000 annually and will continue unless repealed by voters.
Adjective
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Conjecture over that evidence fueled unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that there might have been a second shooter, or that his death was staged.
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Conjecture over the evidence in Kirk’s killing has fueled unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that there might have been a second shooter, or that his death was staged.
Verb
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In 1865, more than eight decades after Elizabeth Freeman defeated slavery in Massachusetts, the practice was finally abolished throughout the United States, though only after a civil war that cleaved the young nation and cost more than 600,000 lives.
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Every fifty years, all debt was abolished.
Adjective
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As the noise-rap-electro act Jane Remover shrieked and pleaded through a 90-minute marathon set at the Fonda on Thursday night, one very young couple dressed right out of a conservative‘s nightmare — gender-ambiguous, purple hair, facial piercings — tapped me on the shoulder.
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At a billion scans a month, even modest rates imply hundreds of millions of ambiguous results a year, each one demanding a clinical decision and producing a worried customer.
Verb
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The Mason Motocross races on Sunday were canceled after the crash, WOWK reported.
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He was eventually brought by an airport assistant to the gate for the flight to Sarasota, but that service was delayed and eventually canceled due to weather.
Adjective
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Though editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (a Yorgos Lanthimos regular) cuts the film with brisk concision, there’s also a welcome temporal elasticity here — the sense that life can change in the blink of an eye, but also stall for undefined passages.
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The city and the Stars will discuss further plans for the arena and the district through their undefined negotiation period.
Verb
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In Tennessee, a pickup truck carrying about 1 million bees overturned near Knoxville in April, unleashing a swarm that blanketed the crash scene.
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The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged them to undo a federal appeals court decision that overturned the verdict.
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