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What is the verb for invoke?

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invoke
  1. (transitive) To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
  2. (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
  3. (transitive) To conjure up with incantations.
  4. (transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
  5. (transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
  6. (computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “But to compensate, she would invoke the goddess for help with great fervor, performing an unusually large number of bows.”
      “You cannot heal him, but you can invoke the Spirit of healing.”
      “Defendant made nine attempts to invoke his right to counsel. Each time, the interrogating officer ignored the request.”
invocate
  1. To invoke or implore
  2. To summon or conjure up
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Do you invocate the blessed Mary and the saints, and trust to their merits and intercession?”
      “Kromanti ceremonies feature an African-derived esoteric language, rare medicinal preparations and distinctive dances, songs and drumming styles to invocate ancestral spirits.”
      “One priest discovered that he could give excitation for plants with invocate and accelerate their growth.”
invocates
invokes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invoke
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Bach invokes these emotions within a structure so crystalline that we can't begin to fathom its perfection.”
      “He invokes the Constitution as if that document only checks and does not also aid the national-security state's amassment of power.”
      “The author invokes the strength of medical authority to his denial of the negative impact on health intrinsic to the operation of such a smelter.”
invocated
invoked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of invoke
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  3. Examples:
    1. “James's receptivity to popular culture is sometimes invoked as proof of his far-flung intellect.”
      “Explaining Elizabeth's rejection of him, he invoked the standards of newly popular sentimental literature saying.”
      “A Tory government again invoked emergency powers, against striking rail workers.”
invocating
invoking
  1. present participle of invoke
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Offer prayers continuously invoking mercy of God upon your dead father and mother.”
      “Listen to our President invoking a deity or prayer in every one of his speeches, and maybe an answer will occur to you.”
      “One would think that, on the basis of that commonality, invoking Scathach and Odhinn for a divinatory ritual would present no problems.”
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