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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
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Two years ago, the court upheld a law preventing domestic abusers from owning guns; a lower court had invalidated the law before the high court intervened.
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Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
25 June 2026
But in 2024, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge invalidated the law, ruling that the state, not the city, has jurisdiction over petroleum production.
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Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
That order applied only in New York, while the latest decision invalidated the policy nationwide.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
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.
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Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
2 June 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
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.
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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
Verb
An Oregon environmental group is suing the Department of the Interior to stop a timber sale in the Coast Range because Congress invalidated the BLM resource management plan that would have ordinarily guided the sale of about 1,300 acres of timber in sensitive salmon-rearing habitat.
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Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Two years ago, the court upheld a law preventing domestic abusers from owning guns; a lower court had invalidated the law before the high court intervened.
—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
25 June 2026
But in 2024, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge invalidated the law, ruling that the state, not the city, has jurisdiction over petroleum production.
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Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
That order applied only in New York, while the latest decision invalidated the policy nationwide.
—
ABC News,
23 June 2026
On Monday, a Milan court invalidated the will of Reggiani's mother, Silvana Barbieri, saying irregularities rendered the document legally void.
—
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
Adjective
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What is often misunderstood is that any of these virtuous behaviors can manifest as deficient vices when underdeveloped and as excess vices when strong but unsupported by the other 10 character dimensions, as evidenced by Steve Jobs.
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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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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.
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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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Rubio met with Gulf Arab leaders in Bahrain on Thursday in an effort to assuage their concerns over certain terms of the MOU, including the ambiguous language around the management of the Strait of Hormuz.
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With one, everything the best-performing agent learns is written into a layer for the next—how to handle a difficult customer, which exception patterns resolved cleanly, what an ambiguous edge case meant for the business.
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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.
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Anyway, things continue to be tenuous at The Bear, as Sydney, Richie, Natalie and Carmy are forced to adjust to their new status quo, with a wholly undefined new power structure.
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Backed by key rivals yet still largely undefined on national policy, Burnham faces calls for a full contest as his party deliberates.
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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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“Invalidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidated. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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