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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
  • This show is a repudiation of that fear, a way for Gulman to talk through how he’s tried to reclaim some confidence, to move past the childhood wound of being unsupported and underestimated.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Nearly one in two employees have reported experiencing burnout in the past year, and employees with unsupported mental health issues are more likely to call out sick or manage chronic health issues.
    Marcy Klipfel, Forbes, 26 Feb. 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bill's language caused much confusion and gridlock in 2019, leading Parliament to pursue an additional measure, which repealed the 2011 act and instituted the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill, which Queen Elizabeth II assented to in March 2022.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
  • Elon Musk's team doubling to 200 employees amid federal workforce cuts elsewhere Musk continues unsubstantiated claims of massive fraud through dead people Musk and Trump continue to say the SSA is providing benefits to people who are too old to be alive.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s support for the DOGE Dividend and the varied estimates — from the straightforward $5,000 calculation to the intriguing, but unsubstantiated $8,000 possibility — highlight both the promise and the complexity of the proposal.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 20 Feb. 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
  • Team Harris’s strategy appeared to rely heavily on a short campaign window, with a sparse interview schedule, slow windup to unscripted events, and ambiguous policy positions.
    W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Instead, security leaders typically present compliance checklists, regulatory obligations and ambiguous risk scores that executives then struggle to translate into financial and operational impact.
    Jerry Layden, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The undefined goals of the tit-for-tat escalation with some of the United States’ most important partners has left markets reeling and businesses baffled as to how this ends.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
  • What To Know Reuters, Bloomberg and CNN were among news outlets which reported that Trump had ordered the suspension of all military aid supplies to Kyiv pending an undefined Ukrainian commitment to a peaceful settlement of the war.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • The causes of the outages are unknown, but there were unconfirmed reports of a DDOS cyberattack.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • This case may be different, if reports are true that the flotilla is escorted by a nuclear-powered submarine, but this remains unconfirmed.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025

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