as in spell
a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power
a Siberian shaman muttering mysterious invocations to ward off evil
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Recent Examples of invocation
Her fiddling is a looser, freer, more accessible type of memorialization—less a notation than an invocation, a summoning of her homeland’s spirit.
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Yet office work expanded, as recent invocations of the Jevons paradox rightly note.
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Christopher Marquis,
Time,
30 May 2026
His alarming invocation of slavery in the context of artificial intelligence is a deliberate moral framing meant to force recognition of how power can become normalized when it is embedded in systems that appear efficient, invisible and economically indispensable.
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Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
26 May 2026
In Long Beach, Forest Lawn, a cemetery park built in 1921, held a Memorial Day observance on Monday morning that featured a keynote address, patriotic music, invocation, ceremonial wreath presentation, the Pledge of Allegiance, a color guard, and a presidential proclamation.
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Daily News,
25 May 2026
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Yet office work expanded, as recent invocations of the Jevons paradox rightly note.
—
Christopher Marquis,
Time,
30 May 2026
His alarming invocation of slavery in the context of artificial intelligence is a deliberate moral framing meant to force recognition of how power can become normalized when it is embedded in systems that appear efficient, invisible and economically indispensable.
—
Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
26 May 2026
In Long Beach, Forest Lawn, a cemetery park built in 1921, held a Memorial Day observance on Monday morning that featured a keynote address, patriotic music, invocation, ceremonial wreath presentation, the Pledge of Allegiance, a color guard, and a presidential proclamation.
—
Daily News,
25 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for invocation
Noun
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In France, more than 1,000 excess deaths were recorded during the heat spell, according to the country’s national public health agency.
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Dettori retired as a jockey after taking some rides in Brazil following a spell racing in the United States, Britain's PA news agency reported.
Noun
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The effect, when it is sung in unison by a crowd of 80,000 people, is akin to a kind of incantation.
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There is a bopping, rhythmic assonance to Ginsberg’s unspooling lines, more incantation than poetry.
Noun
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Morgan and her Judgment Day cronies tried to bribe Danhausen to put curses on their opponents.
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The dust-ups might have driven the Honeywells away from their island paradise, more casualties of the lottery curse.
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“Invocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invocation. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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