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verb

past tense of invalidate

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Recent Examples of invalidated
Verb
But later, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee, who oversees the trial proceedings, invalidated that charge for other defendants in the case who did not plead guilty and challenged the count’s validity. Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024 The arbitration award invalidated PRC claims to numerous features within the Philippines’ EEZ, including Scarborough Shoal. Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 His ruling also invalidated leases of VA property, including to UCLA and Brentwood School, and ordered the VA to increase its outreach staff. Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024 The company’s lawyers also said multiple Supreme Court precedents invalidated the Justice Department’s case. David McCabe, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024 Two other new rules that Cox invalidated were passed by the State Election Board in August and have to do with certification. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024 The rules that Cox invalidated include three that had gotten a lot of attention — one that requires that the number of ballots be hand-counted after the close of polls and two that had to do with the certification of election results. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024 The rules that Cox invalidated include three that had gotten a lot of attention – one that requires that the number of ballots be hand-counted after the close of polls and two that had to do with the certification of election results. Kate Brumback, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2024 Two other new rules that Cox invalidated were passed by the Georgia State Election Board in August and have to do with certification. CBS News, 16 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
Adjective
  • Absent a raft of unsupported PCs operating as honey traps for hackers and malware, this one-of-a-kind hardware refresh is coming.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Witkoff also repeated an unsupported claim made by Putin that Russian forces have surrounded a significant number of Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk region.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • However, the bill's language caused much confusion and gridlock in 2019, leading Parliament to pursue an additional measure, which repealed the 2011 act and instituted the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill, which Queen Elizabeth II assented to in March 2022.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Voters in November repealed part of a decade-old law that softened some criminal penalties and ousted two progressive district attorneys who championed such reforms.
    Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Grad didn’t offer evidence of his claim, and the theory remains publicly unsubstantiated.
    Larry Holder, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk have fueled fears of cuts to Social Security with their unsubstantiated rhetoric about fraud within the agency.
    The Hill, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In 2023, a group of House Republicans attempted to raise sales taxes with the FairTax Act, which would have abolished the Internal Revenue Service and replaced income tax and other levies with a national sales tax.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Courtesy of the Social Security Fairness Act, millions of Americans will see higher Social Security checks now that the windfall elimination provision (WEP) and GPO (government pension offset) have been abolished.
    Suzanne Blake Reporter, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Religion is the topic most likely to cause offense in India today, though the code is ambiguous on this point too.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
  • One thing that is not ambiguous is that the spirit is drawing Mia into its world a little at a time.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The talking stage seems to be a paradoxical, almost liminal space: both liberating and frustrating, full of potential yet undefined.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Timothy Bechtel, a senior professor of geosciences at undefined in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, told the Bergen Record that most sinkholes are caused by precipitation and begin with a manmade void or a natural cave.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • That order was canceled about an hour later, the Air Traffic Control Command Center said in an advisory.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Some trains have been canceled completely, including Acela 2122 between Washington and New York, and trains between New York and Boston and between New York and Philadelphia, the company posted on X Monday night.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Multiple unconfirmed tornadoes were also reported across Indiana overnight, and the NWS is evaluating tornado damage in Vigo County, Brownsburg, Carmel and northeast of Bedford, according to reporting from the Indianapolis Star, part of the USA TODAY network.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The unconfirmed encounter between the U.S. and Russian militaries comes after the Carl Vinson was redeployed by the Pentagon last week to begin transiting to the Middle East from the Western Pacific Ocean amid escalating strikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025

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