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 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
  • 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
  • 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 in the coming weeks, the committee laid out, Pence would come under pressure from Trump to invalidate Biden’s win and find a way to keep the president in power.
    Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker and Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 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
  • Even this small number of cases is enough to invalidate Rinke’s sweeping statement that only Democrats do this.
    Lou Jacobson and Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 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
  • Schiff’s book focuses not on Trump’s attempts to invalidate the 2020 election, but on his colleagues.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • If the court invalidated the tax, the Justice Department warned, the government could lose $340 billion.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • Last year, the court’s conservatives similarly invalidated a Biden plan to wipe out student loans of millions of Americans.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • The judge is also slated to decide two days before the scheduled sentencing whether the immunity decision should invalidate the jury’s guilty verdict.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Sep. 2024

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