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

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  • 'edit_term' action, which will run every time a category or tag is edited (i.e. we're assuming that the editing of a term invalidates our data and we want to remove the cached version).

    Codex - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • 'edit_term' action, which will run every time a category or tag is edited (i.e. we're assuming that the editing of a term invalidates our data and we want to remove the cached version).

    Codex - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Sorry, as I stated in my previous post, your lack of restraint and childish name-calling invalidates anything you have to say.

    Gay/Lesbian Forum 2010

  • Sorry, as I stated in my previous post, your lack of restraint and childish name-calling invalidates anything you have to say.

    Gay/Lesbian Forum 2010

  • Gasoline is taxed to pay for roads, so that kind of invalidates your argument.

    Gasoline Hysteria, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Any judicial review that invalidates government actions, whether based on the original understanding or not, is antimajoritarian.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • The law also permits police to ask for documents from anyone they suspect is undocumented, and invalidates contracts with undocumented immigrants--to keep them, for example, from finding housing.

    Maribel Hastings: Sweet Home Alabama? Maribel Hastings 2011

  • The law also permits police to ask for documents from anyone they suspect is undocumented, and invalidates contracts with undocumented immigrants--to keep them, for example, from finding housing.

    Maribel Hastings: Sweet Home Alabama? Maribel Hastings 2011

  • Today, Governor Cuomo's promised elimination of the Advantage program threatens the homes of 15,000 households established in the community and invalidates thousands of those who currently hold vouchers.

    Bonnie Stone: New York's Homeless Left Behind in Governor's Budget Bonnie Stone 2011

  • U.S. court invalidates King patents on Skelaxin (Reuters)

    The New York Legal News Round Up 2009

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