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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
evoke .
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Examples
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To Orlando Sentinel columnist David D. Porter, the term evokes a "goose-stepper cadence."
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To Orlando Sentinel columnist David D. Porter, the term evokes a "goose-stepper cadence."
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Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in "Don't Tread on Me" T-shirts.
NYT > Global Home By MIKE McINTIRE 2011
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To Orlando Sentinel columnist David D. Porter, the term evokes a "goose-stepper cadence."
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Just the word evokes a response in most people, whether it be excitement, curiosity, anger, sadness, or a host of other feelings.
Stephanie J. Stiavetti: Holly Heyser: The Philosophical Huntress Stephanie J. Stiavetti 2011
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To Esther the word evokes images of butterfly migrations; desert nomads rolling up tents; the long, unpinned chevrons of geese that pass over the house in autumn.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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To Esther the word evokes images of butterfly migrations; desert nomads rolling up tents; the long, unpinned chevrons of geese that pass over the house in autumn.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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But the most familiar sense of the word ‘Gothic’ is to be found in pop culture, where the term evokes principally the gothic novel or short story: an expression that should instantly bring to mind tales of vampires and werewolves, ghosts and goblins; nubile virgins in white nightdresses screaming their attractive heads off while telltale hearts beat beneath lace bodices and creaky floorboards.
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But the most familiar sense of the word ‘Gothic’ is to be found in pop culture, where the term evokes principally the gothic novel or short story: an expression that should instantly bring to mind tales of vampires and werewolves, ghosts and goblins; nubile virgins in white nightdresses screaming their attractive heads off while telltale hearts beat beneath lace bodices and creaky floorboards.
Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009
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Pension or "demi-pension": the term evokes quaint 1920's France, when expats like M.F.K.
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