How to Use invalidate in a Sentence

invalidate

verb
  • The study invalidates earlier theories.
  • Does the failure of the latter invalidate the salience of the former?
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Even a tiny sip of water or a puff of smoke is enough to invalidate the fast.
    Niniek Karmini, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Courts would be asked to invalidate the bans; and there could be legal battles over that.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Democrats want to steal the election and invalidate the will of the American people.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The repeal didn’t invalidate the sign permits issued under the 2023 law, so PAMM was free to turn on the sign this week.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
  • Musk has said that high bot numbers would be grounds to invalidate the initial deal.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 June 2022
  • The district then filed a lawsuit against Disney in state court to invalidate the deal.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Since a naked male robot might invalidate the film’s PG rating, Brian gives him trousers and a very large dress shirt.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
  • The elder Laws went to court asking a judge to invalidate Grayeyes’ victory and lost.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That action, the lawsuit says, would invalidate the ballot rather than count it.
    Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 11 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The counterclaim sought to invalidate Nike’s trademark for the shoe and move the trademark for the Air Force 1 into the public domain.
    Ann Gehan, Dallas News, 11 July 2021
  • The case demands that the high court invalidate the states’ 62 total Electoral College votes.
    Author: Nomaan Merchant, Alanna Durkin Richer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2020
  • That process could be enough to either invalidate the rule or delay things long enough to get past that 6-month period.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2021
  • That suit, which sought to invalidate as many as 1.5 million mail-in ballots, was dismissed by courts.
    CBS News, 11 June 2022
  • The decision to sell the land thus should have been made publicly, a citizens’ group alleges in a lawsuit that seeks to invalidate the sale.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • But in the coming weeks, the committee laid out, Pence would come under pressure from to invalidate Biden’s win and find a way to keep Trump in power.
    Mary Clare Jalonick, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • When the Dodgers won a championship during the height of a global pandemic in 2020, most fans chose to invalidate the team's success.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But that does not invalidate the purpose of the exercise.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Both parties joined forces to file a lawsuit in January 2023 to try and invalidate the FCC’s order.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 15 July 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
  • That omission is now the reason a pending Supreme Court case could invalidate Obamacare in full.
    New York Times, 10 May 2021
  • Ness took the city to federal court to invalidate the ordinance.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2021
  • But all the judges said a court could neither invalidate the results nor halt the certification process at this point.
    Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg.com, 28 Nov. 2020
  • The court is set to hear oral arguments Jan. 10 regarding the company’s bid to invalidate the ban.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The ruling does not invalidate ballots that have already been mailed.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • This means that only the suit by private parties will go forward against the law, with the potential to invalidate at a later time.
    Tyler Olson, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The suit, depending on its resolution, could invalidate hundreds of PURA rulings.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Any work permits, or other immigration forms issued with the October 2026 expiration have also been invalidated.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025

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