Synonyms of invoking

invoking

verb

present participle of invoke

as in creating

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

we should be prepared for the possibility that any solution may invoke another set of problems

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creating
• causing
• bringing
• generating
• prompting
• doing
• spawning
• producing
• working
• inducing
• yielding
• effecting
• making
• effectuating
• bringing about
• catalyzing
• introducing
• resulting (in)
• translating (into)
• engendering
• giving rise to
• drawing on
• begetting
• occasioning
• promoting
• breeding
• initiating
• encouraging
• bringing on
• bringing forth
• establishing
• inaugurating
• determining
• launching
• contributing (to)
• instituting
• enacting
• developing
• founding
• pioneering
• beginning
• deciding
• starting
• rendering
• fostering
• cultivating
• furthering
• forwarding
• setting
• conducing (to)
• nurturing
• advancing
• setting up
• fathering
• innovating
• turning out
• nourishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• suppressing
• controlling
• crushing
• checking
• quashing
• subduing
• repressing
• stifling
• restraining
• quelling
• inhibiting
• smothering
• arresting
• curbing
• dampening
• killing
• putting down
• retarding
• destroying
• squelching
• squashing
• abolishing
• extinguishing
• cracking down (on)
• quenching
• demolishing
• clamping down (on)
• liquidating
• canning
• reining (in)
• stilling
• snuffing (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of invoking

His family has sharply challenged that, calling it a rush to judgment and invoking the state’s fraught racial history. — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026

The bodycam video also sparked reaction online, with several conservative accounts criticizing Hostin for invoking her legal background during the encounter. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026

He was arrested on charges of invoking the national flag in his performances, including in a photo published by state run newspaper Granma which depicted the artist brushing his teeth while draping the flag around his waist like a bath towel. — News Desk, Artforum, 21 July 2026

Dionysios Solomos was among the Greek poets who turned to Homer in the early nineteenth century during the struggle for independence from the Ottoman empire, invoking the greatest ancient poet to define the culture of the emerging modern nation. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

Burke piles fascinating shuffling sounds on top, invoking a quiet scuffle, maybe some cardboard boxes being knocked over in a storage space. — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 14 July 2026

Advertisement Since returning to office, the President has repeatedly relied on tariffs against allies and rivals, often invoking national security or emergency authorities to justify sweeping import taxes. — Nik Popli, Time, 14 July 2026

In seemingly unrelated criminal cases across California, suspects kept invoking the name of the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 7 July 2026

The ubiquity of natural-law thinking soon led to both antislavery and pro-slavery arguments invoking it. — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026