as in invocation
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Despite the invocation of the term 60 years ago, stagflation’s heyday was in the ’70s, when economic growth cooled, wages stagnated, and prices were rising.—
Jill Schlesinger,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026 -
And the court said by repeating his intention not to talk, that's not an invocation of the right to remain silent.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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By then, the photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan were teaching at the school, along with Hazel Larsen Archer, who had overlapped with Rauschenberg in 1949 and captured his love of movement and of grace in a photograph of her own.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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Give yourself grace during this process, says Lautman.—
Taylor Grothe,
Parents,
4 Apr. 2026
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Be careful not to completely block the drainage hole of your planter, which causes stagnant water collect in the bottom.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2026
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Beads of blood collect at the base of two fingers.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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County commissioners have not voted on the airport renaming, but emails obtained by the Miami Herald through a records request show county staffers privately raised a litany of financial, safety and legal concerns about the name change to state lawmakers late last year.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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The decision follows uproar over Wireless’ decision to book Ye despite his litany of antisemitic remarks and alignment with Nazism in recent years.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
7 Apr. 2026
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Such rhetoric echoes in official statements as well — in prayers for destruction, in invocations of divine sanction for war and in casual references to catastrophic violence.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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For the birth of WolfVoice's youngest daughter a few years ago, Pipe brought cedar oil, a sacred plant used for prayer, and calmed WolfVoice through her contractions.—
Katheryn Houghton,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Requiescat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requiescat. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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