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verb

past tense of invalidate

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Recent Examples of invalidated
Adjective
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 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
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
  • 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
  • By contrast, Congress repealed federal restrictions and taxes on brewing beer for personal use in 1978.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Some Democrats fear Trump could use those unsubstantiated assertions as a pretext to intervene in November.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Many are leaning into their own unsubstantiated suppositions, even those not backed by evidence.
    Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The colonial latifundium, instead of being abolished by independence, was strengthened, leading to any number of national ills.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Norway does not have a coronation for the monarch, as the ceremonies were abolished by parliament in 1908.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Not in some ambiguous, interpretive way—but with your actual eyes.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Pathak describes Vijay Salgaonkar as increasingly morally ambiguous across the three films, anchored by one constant.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Games were canceled, tearful tributes were made and things were solemn for a long time.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The event was canceled, and the Canadian government lost millions on the project.
    Jesse McLaren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Those 31 undefined concepts in our own knowledge base were a governance failure at a company that exists to solve governance failures.
    Philip Brittan, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But the agreement subsequently collapsed as Washington and Tehran started fighting over shipping routes, which were left undefined in the deal.
    Spencer Kimball,Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Unlike Bryce Underwood’s final pass, the MAC’s Hail Mary to get the outcome overturned was destined to fail.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Police say five people have died and 40 others were injured after a Dutch tour bus slammed into a roadside crash barrier and overturned in eastern Switzerland.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026

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“Invalidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidated. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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