How to Use invalidate in a Sentence

invalidate

verb

• The study invalidates earlier theories.
• Even a tiny sip of water or a puff of smoke is enough to invalidate the fast.
  — Niniek Karmini, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
• The district then filed a lawsuit against Disney in state court to invalidate the deal.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• The elder Laws went to court asking a judge to invalidate Grayeyes’ victory and lost.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• But the final straw came when the court’s ruling forced the county to invalidate all cannabis licenses.
  — Adam Elmahrek, Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• But that does not invalidate the purpose of the exercise.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• There are a great number of laws that are in contradiction to the constitution and which the judges should invalidate.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• The ruling does not invalidate ballots that have already been mailed.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2022
• The same court declined to take up a lawsuit brought shortly after the 2020 election that sought to invalidate those results because of the use of drop boxes.
  — Timothy Bella and Patrick Marley, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2022
• The Michigan proposal is an attempt to invalidate a 1931 law that would ban nearly all abortions in the state.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• But the fact that malaria rates came back down again doesn’t invalidate the findings’ importance.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
• The results of Issue 1 will almost certainly require the court to invalidate the six-week ban.
  — Kate Zernike, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Upchurch says she has been impressed with the strength of young trans people in Ohio as their state lawmakers have tried to invalidate their identities and right to care.
  — Julia Zorthian, TIME, 29 Dec. 2023
• The justices are expected to issue a decision, which could invalidate the program, by the end of June.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
• But the court declined to invalidate the entire agency.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
• On the horizon, the Court seems poised to invalidate affirmative-action plans and other policies esteemed on the left.
  — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
• The campaign claims this is an attempt to invalidate the candidate.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2024
• The government also points out that such a scenario would invalidate all generic versions of the drug, since those were approved for use subsequent to the year 2000.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2023
• It is also supposed to invalidate previous codes to keep bad actors from reusing them.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022
• Two months after Prop C passed, a coalition of landlord, business and taxpayer groups that had opposed the measure sued in an attempt to invalidate it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
• State voting rules being changed through dubious procedures isn’t vote fraud and doesn’t invalidate votes cast in good faith.
  — WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• The commission had hoped that the nation's high court would suspend the redrawing process while the mappers appeal the lower court's opinion invalidating its work.
  — Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2024
• The Friends’ lawsuit seeks to invalidate the contract and to require a coastal development permit from the Coastal Commission.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
• Sign up And both city and state officials took the legal challenge as an opportunity to tee off on and invalidate the whole effort.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
• Talk of the couple installing an air conditioner — and thus, like the guy who threw out the induction oven last week, invalidating the carbon-neutral nature of the house — scotches the deal.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
• The committee will review how Trump leaned on Raffensperger to invalidate ballots that voters had cast for Biden.
  — Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2022
• Monday’s ruling does not invalidate that requirement to amend the law in the Legislature.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• It is frequently used to invalidate women’s anger and concerns.
  — Natalie Gil, refinery29.com, 11 July 2023
• The court had intervened once before, by a 5-4 vote in August, to keep the regulation in effect after it had been invalidated by a lower court.
  — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2023
• In fact, Johnson argued, their oath to the Constitution required them to invalidate these electors.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024