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Recent Examples of writ
Keeping score Politics is a zero-sum profession, its score-keeping writ in black and white.
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Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
Is there a lesson for Joe Biden? Feb. 26, 2023
Politics is a zero-sum profession, its score-keeping writ in black and white.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Trade policies under a second Trump term could also be favorable for the domestic steel industry writ large, according to Goldman Sachs.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
Employees and employers alike, as well as the education sector writ large, have a role to play in this equation.
—Jamil Wyne, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
Is there a lesson for Joe Biden? Feb. 26, 2023
Politics is a zero-sum profession, its score-keeping writ in black and white.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Trade policies under a second Trump term could also be favorable for the domestic steel industry writ large, according to Goldman Sachs.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
Employees and employers alike, as well as the education sector writ large, have a role to play in this equation.
—Jamil Wyne, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writ
Noun
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The sheriff said arrest warrants for murder were issued Monday for Franklin, who was hospitalized and would be taken into custody once released.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2025
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Porter Superior Court had an active warrant for Curry on an intimidation charge stemming from an Oct. 15, 2024, case.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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That court loss led to a sweep of new bitcoin ETFs, which ultimately proved to be the most successful category launch in the history of such instruments.—
Brady Dale,
Axios,
20 Jan. 2025
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The cold snap forced Yo-Yo Ma and other musicians to pre-record their music, out of fear that their instruments would freeze.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 2025
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He was issued two summonses for disorderly conduct for creating a hazardous condition, and obstruction of vehicular traffic, police said.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
9 Jan. 2025
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The law bars public entities from cooperating with out-of-state investigations into reproductive health care services, protects against subpoenas and witness summonses and prohibits the extradition of lawsuit defendants to other states.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American-Statesman,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Its automatic document feeder (ADF) offers single-pass duplexing (two-sided scanning), a necessity for anyone who needs to scan, copy, or fax duplex pages.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
18 Jan. 2025
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Chinese Hack: One of China’s intelligence agencies hacked the U.S. Treasury Department, gaining access to the workstations of government employees and unclassified documents, the Biden administration said.—
Meaghan Tobin,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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While traditional arrest warrants require an ascertainment that there is evidence a crime may have been committed, Peterson's capias warrant stems from his failure to appear in court over the issues.—
Gord Magill,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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She was arrested and jailed on a civil order called a capias for repeatedly refusing Moukawsher’s orders requiring her to cooperate with a trustee appointed to close her law practice and prohibiting her from withdrawing money from a client account.—
Hartford Courant,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2022
Noun
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Gabriel Giger, lead author on the paper and Vorholt’s graduate student, started by cooking up a cocktail of enzymes to soften the wall.—
Molly Herring,
WIRED,
26 Jan. 2025
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But over the past seven years, the local paper has not published a substantive follow-up story about the case.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
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The text messages were largely between Baldoni, his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis management expert Melissa Nathan, and were obtained through a civil subpoena, Lively's complaint said.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Bannon was released from prison in October after serving a four-month sentence on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to comply with a subpoena related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.—
Rebecca Falconer,
Axios,
13 Jan. 2025
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The company had admitted in April that its earlier quarterly financial filings covering part of last year weren’t reliable.—
Ben Wieder and,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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What To Know On January 15, Joann released a statement on its new bankruptcy filings.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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