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Recent Examples of invalidated
Charles J. Russo,
The Conversation,
29 June 2026
The ballot measure would have required special taxes approved by local governments to receive two-thirds support from voters to go into effect — and invalidated previous tax increases that hadn’t met that threshold.
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Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2026
Other land-use decisions may also be invalidated, including designation of the BLM’s Areas of Critical Environmental Concern intended to benefit big-game habitat security, or watershed protections intended to conserve native fish species.
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Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Sánchez argues that ballots cast by Peruvians abroad should be invalidated because the government, at the request of the Foreign Ministry, eliminated digital transmission of runoff results, requiring tally sheets to be physically transported to Lima.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
Ashely also now argued, for the first time, that the UPEPA violated her constitutional right to a jury trial (the previous Minnesota Anti-SLAPP law had been invalidated years earlier for this very reason).
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Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
But in its ruling, the Supreme Court sided with Pitchford, clearing the way for his conviction to be invalidated.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
Piper, the former election official, said the recent map changes also increase the chance of administrative errors, like a voter getting the wrong ballot, which can make invalidated votes more likely.
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Miles Parks,
NPR,
14 May 2026
The map the Supreme Court invalidated had two majority-black seats and Republicans hope to reduce the advantage for Democrats in at least one of the seats.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
Earlier this year, courts also invalidated Democratic redistricting efforts in Virginia and New York that were aimed at the midterm elections, though Democrats could try again there before the 2028 elections.
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ABC News,
29 June 2026
The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has warned that people can easily obtain fakes; in 2010, Puerto Rico invalidated all its existing birth certificates, citing rampant fraud and identity theft.
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Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
In 1996, a federal trial court in Mississippi invalidated Bible study classes taught in a rotation with music, physical education and library courses, plus another called A Biblical History of the Middle East.
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Charles J. Russo,
The Conversation,
29 June 2026
An Oregon environmental group is suing the Department of the Interior to stop a timber sale in the Coast Range because Congress invalidated the BLM resource management plan that would have ordinarily guided the sale of about 1,300 acres of timber in sensitive salmon-rearing habitat.
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Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Two years ago, the court upheld a law preventing domestic abusers from owning guns; a lower court had invalidated the law before the high court intervened.
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Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
25 June 2026
But in 2024, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge invalidated the law, ruling that the state, not the city, has jurisdiction over petroleum production.
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Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
With regard to the current Section 301 probe and the potential of levying stickier double-digit duties than those invalidated by the Supreme Court earlier this year, the USTR is due to make a decision by mid-July’s deadline.
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Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
2 June 2026
Adjective
In the following decades, lower courts invalidated classes as violating the establishment clause if the subject matter promoted Christianity – teaching it as religious truth rather than discussing the Bible’s literary and historical qualities.
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Charles J. Russo,
The Conversation,
29 June 2026
The ballot measure would have required special taxes approved by local governments to receive two-thirds support from voters to go into effect — and invalidated previous tax increases that hadn’t met that threshold.
—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2026
Other land-use decisions may also be invalidated, including designation of the BLM’s Areas of Critical Environmental Concern intended to benefit big-game habitat security, or watershed protections intended to conserve native fish species.
—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Sánchez argues that ballots cast by Peruvians abroad should be invalidated because the government, at the request of the Foreign Ministry, eliminated digital transmission of runoff results, requiring tally sheets to be physically transported to Lima.
—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
Ashely also now argued, for the first time, that the UPEPA violated her constitutional right to a jury trial (the previous Minnesota Anti-SLAPP law had been invalidated years earlier for this very reason).
—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
But in its ruling, the Supreme Court sided with Pitchford, clearing the way for his conviction to be invalidated.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
Piper, the former election official, said the recent map changes also increase the chance of administrative errors, like a voter getting the wrong ballot, which can make invalidated votes more likely.
—
Miles Parks,
NPR,
14 May 2026
The map the Supreme Court invalidated had two majority-black seats and Republicans hope to reduce the advantage for Democrats in at least one of the seats.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
Verb
Then, in 2014, the Supreme Court invalidated the limit on the amount of money a donor could contribute to federal candidates in a two-year election cycle.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
Earlier this year, courts also invalidated Democratic redistricting efforts in Virginia and New York that were aimed at the midterm elections, though Democrats could try again there before the 2028 elections.
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ABC News,
29 June 2026
The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has warned that people can easily obtain fakes; in 2010, Puerto Rico invalidated all its existing birth certificates, citing rampant fraud and identity theft.
—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
In 1996, a federal trial court in Mississippi invalidated Bible study classes taught in a rotation with music, physical education and library courses, plus another called A Biblical History of the Middle East.
—
Charles J. Russo,
The Conversation,
29 June 2026
An Oregon environmental group is suing the Department of the Interior to stop a timber sale in the Coast Range because Congress invalidated the BLM resource management plan that would have ordinarily guided the sale of about 1,300 acres of timber in sensitive salmon-rearing habitat.
—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Two years ago, the court upheld a law preventing domestic abusers from owning guns; a lower court had invalidated the law before the high court intervened.
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Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
25 June 2026
But in 2024, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge invalidated the law, ruling that the state, not the city, has jurisdiction over petroleum production.
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Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
With regard to the current Section 301 probe and the potential of levying stickier double-digit duties than those invalidated by the Supreme Court earlier this year, the USTR is due to make a decision by mid-July’s deadline.
—
Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidated
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He is no longer charged with the capital offense of murder through the use of a firearm after Garnett dismissed it in January, finding the top count was legally unsupported by the other charges.
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Most of those restrictions were repealed in 1985, but the weekend sale restriction for car dealerships remained in place.
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In 1971, weary of the war in Vietnam, Congress repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
Adjective
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The former president has also made unsubstantiated claims of vandalism causing the pool's problems.
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The company alleged Fox broadcasted unsubstantiated allegations that Dominion's software manipulated vote counts, and the news organization settled for $787 million.
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The state this year abolished the job of the New Orleans criminal court clerk — merging it with another court clerk position.
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The other reconstruction amendments abolished slavery and expanded voting rights.
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Vermeule—a former clerk for Scalia—proposes that conservatives should read the Constitution’s ambiguous phrases and general structure in an openly moral way, drawing on principles grounded in the nature and purposes of government.
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Without a unified, clean, and accessible data structure, AI outputs quickly become ambiguous, hallucinated, and diluted, deepening the clarity crisis rather than resolving it.
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Parades, concerts and fireworks shows were canceled or delayed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware for July 3 and 4.
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Philadelphia canceled its Wawa Welcome America parade, Washington’s Great American State Fair temporarily closed Friday afternoon, and other celebrations have delayed public entry to reduce exposure during the hottest hours.
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But their relationship remains undefined, and kind of over after Carter drunkenly ruins Beulah's big party.
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The top players’ form is patchy or simply undefined.
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At least 16 people have been killed and 20 others injured when a bus transporting passengers to South Africa's Eastern Cape province overturned in the early hours of Thursday.
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One notable example came in 2024, when Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes’ red card was overturned by the Football Association of England.
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“Invalidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidated. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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