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Recent Examples of writ
This premise allows the author to examine immigration writ large from several angles: the idealistic welcomers, the indignant opponents and the impatient immigrants themselves.
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The Know, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2025
The industrialization of their work gets overlooked now perhaps because it was overlooked in their own time, but considering them as a parallel workforce in the history of labor at Lowell offers new insights into the history of the Industrial Revolution writ large.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
Gossip and confrontation are the pillars of good reality television writ large, but what makes a great season of Below Deck is more specific and somewhat counter-intuitive.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025
The future of the profession writ large was not Khan’s concern.
—Maggie Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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The Know, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2025
The industrialization of their work gets overlooked now perhaps because it was overlooked in their own time, but considering them as a parallel workforce in the history of labor at Lowell offers new insights into the history of the Industrial Revolution writ large.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
Gossip and confrontation are the pillars of good reality television writ large, but what makes a great season of Below Deck is more specific and somewhat counter-intuitive.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025
The future of the profession writ large was not Khan’s concern.
—Maggie Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writ
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The incident began when an officer on patrol spotted a vehicle being driven north on Hemingway Avenue that was believed to be tied to a felony arrest warrant, according to Capt. Joseph M. Murgo of the East Haven Police Department.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
8 May 2025
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Google is a corporation, and the fear that its platforms — and others — will now use AI to scrutinize private, confidential, secure information warrants reflection.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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The 2025 Lincoln Navigator flagship gets dramatic new looks and features, including dramatic exterior lights, a new body and a high-def 48-inch instrument display stretching nearly the width of the big SUV’s dashboard.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
8 May 2025
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One of Juno’s ten active instruments, the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) was specifically invented for the mission.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Rosen, who lives in Oceanside, L.I., has no prior arrests, though he has been given summonses three times for speeding and once for driving the wrong way, sources said.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2025
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All three were charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct and were given summonses to appear in court.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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PDFs are highlighted as a new favorite for cyber attacks, given user wariness as regards Office documents.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Rice was first married to a man with the last name Bakken from 2010 to 2013, per court documents obtained by the Minot Daily News.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
3 May 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
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Japan pushed back, saying the negotiations should be comprehensive, the paper said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 May 2025
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If a majority is not met, then the ballot papers will be added to a mixture of potassium perchlorate, anthracene and sulfur to create the black smoke.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
3 May 2025
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To that, with the dismissal-seeking Reynolds now a defendant in Baldoni’s $400 million defamation and extortion suit, there was an evidence retention letter sent to Iger and Marvel chief Kevin Feige in January around the time of the L.A. wildfires and now this looming subpoena.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2025
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The legislature provided the office with a powerful tool not available to other state prosecutors, the investigative subpoena.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
29 Apr. 2025
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Villatoro Santos doesn't have legal status in the United States and remains at risk for being sent to a notorious mega-prison in his native El Salvador, despite the drop in charges, his lawyer said in court filings.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Witness testimony The government has identified four victims in court filings who are expected to testify at trial.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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“Writ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writ. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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