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

Fresh off a recent campaign visit to Michigan, Vance above all aimed at Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, who the vice president has attacked aggressively for invoking his wife, Usha Vance, on the campaign trail. — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

Vance made that argument deeply personal by invoking his children, second lady Usha Vance and his late grandfather. — Averi Harper, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026

The trick is invoking it selectively, on an anomaly or scheduled review, not on every data point. — Devendra Rajput, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

The Larry June x Adidas Adistar Control 5 stands out with heavy splash of neon green, orange and pink invoking the rapper’s recurring orange references and overall prioritization of health. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2026

Certainly, by lifting part of the museum off the ground, invoking the freeway and framing the long stretch of Wilshire, Zumthor has constructed a worthy metonym for LA. — Katy Barkan, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Suno knows the commercial value of a machine that can conjure up a beloved musician’s identity simply by invoking their name. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026

Yet the attorney general stressed that the election was bigger than Israel, and, invoking Purim’s Queen Esther, urged Jewish voters to put their own feelings of personal safety aside. — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026

Rodgers’ comments were in response to Fauci invoking his Fifth Amendment rights at a congressional hearing on pandemic-era policies and the origins of COVID-19. — John C. Besley, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026