as in spell
a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power
a Siberian shaman muttering mysterious invocations to ward off evil
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Recent Examples of invocation
Her most recent and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century seem to dare it to boil over.
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Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
Driver introductions would be at 5:45 p.m., and the invocation would start at 5:55 p.m. with engines firing shortly thereafter.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
Project 2025’s invocation of child protection undermines the basic premise on which America’s LGBTQ+ rights advances were built.
—Marie-Amélie George / Made By History, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
By channeling their inner child, the creative team was able to filter the at-times painful but artistically fertile depths of Ethiopian history—its invocations of resistance, its enduring iconography—into a re-edit of diasporic presents for future generations to look upon and celebrate.
—Essence, 16 Sep. 2024
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Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
Driver introductions would be at 5:45 p.m., and the invocation would start at 5:55 p.m. with engines firing shortly thereafter.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
Project 2025’s invocation of child protection undermines the basic premise on which America’s LGBTQ+ rights advances were built.
—Marie-Amélie George / Made By History, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
By channeling their inner child, the creative team was able to filter the at-times painful but artistically fertile depths of Ethiopian history—its invocations of resistance, its enduring iconography—into a re-edit of diasporic presents for future generations to look upon and celebrate.
—Essence, 16 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for invocation
Noun
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My pulse kept racing; my mouth went dry and prickly; dizzy spells came on.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The idea was that the ballad is a spell that opens the road, but, really, the ballad is the thing that motivated Billy’s subconscious to create the spell that creates the road.Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
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Plot: Dead bodies from the local cemetery come back to life after Bart utters an incantation from The Time Life Book of Magic and Spells, Vol. II.Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Wanda cursed Hahn's Agatha to live out her days playing out her own distorted reality as Agnes, until a young goth horror enthusiast shows up to break the witch free with an incantation.Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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Regardless of whether one sees it as a triumph or a curse, there is no reason to expect that low fertility will be reversed in any major way.Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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Just one episode after breaking her family’s curse, Alice lies dead on the ground, and the witches—and especially Teen—are not happy.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Invocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invocation. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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