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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
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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
Adjective
  • The lawsuit says the decision was unlawful, unsupported by facts and inconsistent with the military’s past praise of Claude.
    Reuters, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The feedback is often vague, unsupported by concrete examples and disconnected from anything the employee could have reasonably corrected earlier.
    Lauren Russell, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But the immunizations considered for repeal by DOH are only an agency rule, not in state law, and can be repealed by the agency itself.
    CBS News, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Other vaccine requirements, such as for measles, polio and mumps, are in state statute and would require the Legislature’s sign-off to be repealed.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Many are leaning into their own unsubstantiated suppositions, even those not backed by evidence.
    Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • While unsubstantiated claims and speculation circulate online about what led to the killings, Elikann emphasized the importance of following official facts over social media speculation.
    Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Alabama has since abolished judicial override, the practice that allowed judges to order the state to kill a person even though a jury of one’s peers requested otherwise.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Japan has faced growing criticism over its use of the death penalty, as a majority of the international community has abolished capital punishment.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Then ask the insurer, in writing, about anything the certificate leaves ambiguous.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Though her character’s fate was left ambiguous by the end of the film, it was ultimately revealed in 2023’s Scream VI that Kirby survived an intense stab wound and went on to become an FBI special agent.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • If the league and union can’t agree on a new contract by some time in March, some regular-season games likely would be canceled.
    Evan Drellich, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2026
  • South Korean officials said this week that a second exercise, for amphibious landings scheduled for September, was canceled in June.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • This chaotic spending, often financed through risky private credit by hyperscalers, occurs while AI's definition and timeline remain undefined by its creators.
    Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 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
  • According to The Sacramento Bee, California Highway Patrol said the crew member was driving a semi-truck that veered off the interstate highway and overturned.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026
  • At least one person died Thursday morning after a big rig overturned on Interstate 5 south of Zamora in Yolo County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026

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

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