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verb

past tense of invalidate

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Recent Examples of invalidated
Adjective
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 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
Verb
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 Beijing claims virtually the entire waterway and rejected a 2016 ruling in an arbitration case initiated by the Philippines that invalidated its expansive claims. Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 10 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 Now thousands of test results have been invalidated, causing a national uproar. Gina Park, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026 The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) started as a parody account on social media after Indian authorities invalidated the annual medical school entry exam in May. Philip Wang, Time, 25 July 2026 In the 1997 Miami mayoral race vote fraud scandal, for example, after several hundred absentee ballots were proved fraudulent, courts invalidated them all; still, only about 57 individuals were charged. Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026 International goods trade comprises nearly a third of the state's nominal GDP, with the state particularly exposed to tariffs that were not invalidated by February's Supreme Court ruling. Scott Cohn, CNBC, 13 July 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
Adjective
  • Paul argued Fauci using the Fifth Amendment was unsupported because former President Joe Biden, whom Fauci advised during the pandemic, pardoned him.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Sherrill rejected that request Tuesday, calling it unsupported by law.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Prices collapsed after 1986, domestic production was increasingly exempted, and the tax was generating almost nothing by the time it was repealed.
    Tibor Besedeš, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Parents in the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania drew national attention in June when yelling broke out at a board meeting after the district repealed a policy that had given families a choice to opt out.
    Stephanie Cook Broadhurst, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • But scrutiny is not a licence to distort facts, amplify unsubstantiated allegations or manufacture distractions designed to undermine progress.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Trump has continued to make unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • Fortunately, Gorbachev would drop his objections to SDI in time for both men to sign a landmark treaty in 1987 that abolished all intermediate range nuclear arms in Europe and made the entire world safer.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
  • About three-quarters of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
    The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • But that was ambiguous enough for some overeager follow-up reports to mistake the book for the kill-and-tell that many had always assumed Finke would eventually write.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Worse than that, real-world sensor data is often so ambiguous, incomplete, and riddled with noise that the only way to describe it is borderline chaotic.
    David Szondy August 11, New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That trial is scheduled to begin next month, but could be pushed back or canceled altogether depending on what the judge decides.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Abdiel also said he was told his commercial driver’s license would be canceled.
    Maria Santana, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • Such terms can obscure critical job details, hinting at chronic understaffing, unrealistic expectations, or undefined after-hours availability.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned the murder convictions this May and ordered a retrial, saying Colleton County’s then-clerk tainted the first trial with what the defense said was prejudicial comments to the jury.
    Devon M. Sayers, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Rosenwald family resources helped provide the facilities that made possible the accomplishments of the Tuskegee airmen, and supported NAACP legal efforts that ultimately overturned school segregation.
    Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Invalidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidated. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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