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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• The mayor of Bastrop has asked a court to invalidate a recall petition against him.
  — Nicole Cobler, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
• Even worse, that action may invalidate the entire will.
  — Donna Engle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 25 Apr. 2021
• The lawsuit sought to invalidate the mandate and asked for Neve to be reinstated with back pay and benefits.
  — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 20 June 2021
• Despite Democrats’ support for Tubbs Jones’ cause, few colleagues voted with her in the end to invalidate the Ohio electoral results.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2020
• Four of Trump's co-defendants pleaded guilty in the case, although at least one of them – Kenneth Chesebro – is now seeking to invalidate his guilty plea.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
• Nothing in this injunction invalidates the NCAA’s rules that give athletes five years to compete in four seasons.
  — Joe Sabin, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025