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

Sprague was invoking Yates by pointing out that Yates hospitalized herself multiple times and tried to kill herself twice in an attempt to protect her children. — Sumiko Corley, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026

And yet, without anyone taking much notice, much less taking offense, Dolly Parton went around in interview after interview invoking the name of Jesus more often than the Pope. — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026

Singling out Jewish executives and describing them in terms lifted from centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theories, while invoking Israel as the frame for that attack, is antisemitic. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026

Now Druckenmiller is invoking the same logic against Bessent, who has crossed from the trading desk to the Treasury Department. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

Some tools, like Granola, can even capture audio directly from a user’s computer without appearing as a meeting participant, invoking questions about whether all-party consent laws are being violated. — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

By offering to set aside 30% of the new apartments for affordable housing, the company is invoking the 8-30g law that could exempt it from zoning restrictions on density and height. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2026

Stapley adds, invoking the fable of the scorpion and the frog. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026

The president’s new executive orders try to circumvent the court’s birthright citizenship case by invoking a law not discussed in that case. — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2026