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Examples of invalid in a Sentence
Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
The judge shut her down, saying that the document was invalid.
—Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
Now, both sides are appealing a judge’s ruling, which deemed two of the three petitions invalid.
—Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
On Wednesday, a group of three professors at Tehran University specializing in copyright law, along with four official art experts, rejected the claims as invalid and baseless, clearing Farhadi of all blame.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
The Kansas proposal doesn’t declare federal law invalid.
—Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
Almost every reputable ad tech vendor that protects its reputation today collaborates with experts in this area that possess and develop the best mechanisms for detecting and preventing sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT) and general invalid traffic (GIVT) ad fraud.
—Ivan Guzenko, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Read more: Miami faces possible $56M shortfall after state regulators say budget vote was invalid
But the Florida Department of Revenue gave a different opinion, and the commissioners were forced to vote on the budget again in December with a full board.
—Joey Flechas, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
The lawsuit is asking a court to declare her NDA invalid under federal law, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024
Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
As these invalids made their way to Portsmouth, nearly half slipped away, including one who hobbled off on a wooden leg.
—David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
Five hundred invalids from the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, many in their 60s and 70s, were ordered to fill out the ranks.
—Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
In 1944, Marta’s parents, Rudolf Beck, aged seventy, and Regina, a chronic invalid at sixty-nine, died at Auschwitz.
—Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
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invalid
1 of 4 adjective
invalid
2 of 4 adjective
invalid
3 of 4 noun
invalid
4 of 4 verb
Adjective
from earlier invalid "not having a sound basis in fact or reason, not valid," from Latin invalidus "weak"
Adjective
from French invalide "suffering from a disease, sickly," from Latin invalidus "weak"
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