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as in wooed
to act so as to make (something) more likely
you're just inviting ridicule by making such outrageous claims
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Recent Examples of invited
Another tried to convince me that everyone assumed I’d been invited to gatherings and just hadn’t shown up.
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Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Food truck owners like Yokoyama, were recently invited to a food entrepreneur workshop.
—Kenny Choi, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
After Whoopi Goldberg's Finding Your Roots segment revealed that football player Tony Gonzalez is her distant cousin, the actress invited the former athlete to The View.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Another claimed that everyone had just assumed she'd been invited and just didn't show up.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026
As seen in the documentary’s opening scenes, the project began after the filmmakers were invited to film a barbecue at the Easterling Correctional Facility, one of 14 prisons in the system.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Musk, who very much moves in the same billionaire circles as Bezos, was not invited to the nuptials.
—Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 6 Jan. 2026
After co-host Joy Behar played the clip and invited Crockett to respond, the Texas Democrat began with a pointed rebuttal.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 6 Jan. 2026
Marsch prioritizes young players, and the CPL ones invited are 21 or younger.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invited
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He was asked to be the signal-caller, and that responsibility seemed to hinder his ability to read and react.—
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At just 18 months old, he was cast as baby Toby in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, after the filmmaker asked the Frouds, who were already working on the film, if their infant could step into the role.—
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In Single Lady, which premiered on Netflix in October 2024 after being filmed at her stand-up tour of the same name, Wong described how a man—revealed to be Hader later in the set—had wooed and pursued her, leading to her ultimately shedding that single lady status.—
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Arduini spent much of his early career at GE under the leadership of Jack Welch and then Jeff Immelt, leaving in 2005 before Culp wooed him back.—
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The parents both told the outlet, though, that their son has not sought political advice from them.—
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Massachusetts had passed a state law exempting its citizens from serving in such an undeclared war, and the state then sought to bring the question of the conflict’s constitutionality before the justices.—
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“Invited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invited. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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