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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evoke.

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Examples

  • To Orlando Sentinel columnist David D. Porter, the term evokes a "goose-stepper cadence."

    After 9/11: 50 dates that quietly changed America 2011

  • To Orlando Sentinel columnist David D. Porter, the term evokes a "goose-stepper cadence."

    After 9/11: 50 dates that quietly changed America 2011

  • 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

  • To Orlando Sentinel columnist David D. Porter, the term evokes a "goose-stepper cadence."

    Default- News - USATODAY.com 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Let's Do the Time Warp Again: Gothic Ideology Hels 2009

  • 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

  • Pension or "demi-pension": the term evokes quaint 1920's France, when expats like M.F.K.

    rongeur - French Word-A-Day 2007

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