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- verb Present participle of
evoke .
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An affiliated Germanic word passed into French, which reshaped it into the noun hutte, from which English has a word evoking folktales and their forbidding forest settings replete with magical transformations: hut.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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An affiliated Germanic word passed into French, which reshaped it into the noun hutte, from which English has a word evoking folktales and their forbidding forest settings replete with magical transformations: hut.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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When I was a boy in the 1950s, psychiatric hospitals were familiarly called “loony bins,” a phrase evoking images of padded cells and straitjackets.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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When I was a boy in the 1950s, psychiatric hospitals were familiarly called “loony bins,” a phrase evoking images of padded cells and straitjackets.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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The exhibition's largest canvases hail from a series called "Today All Circuits Are Closed," a title evoking clogged phone lines or jammed airwaves but depicting something more literal.
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Hospital food -- an infelicitous term evoking gray peas, dry chicken, Jell-O -- is a near oxymoron.
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Instead of addressing an amorphous territory, "America" could have easily been staged under a title evoking agitated or excised histories, episodes of injustice and repression, or strategies of artistic subversion and creative interference.
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Instead of addressing an amorphous territory, "America" could have easily been staged under a title evoking agitated or excised histories, episodes of injustice and repression, or strategies of artistic subversion and creative interference.
artforum.com 2010
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Oakland in his visionary classic, Valley of the Moon, a title evoking the pristine situation of
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Dewey concludes the final chapter, and the book, by attributing art's greatest good to its exercise of "imaginative vision," leaning heavily on Shelley in evoking the "unacknowledged" influence of art.
June 2010 2010
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