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Recent Examples of writ
And that's what law enforcement does and the first responder community writ large does every single day.
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Steve Inskeep, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
Additionally, employers lose about $1.47 million daily in productivity and revenue while society writ large loses another $1.34 billion each day in quality-of-life costs experienced by gun violence victims and their families.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Fiedler was held in the Carrollton municipal jail before being granted a writ of habeas corpus and released on bond, according to court documents.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2025
Discovery's commitment to Bleacher Report and sports writ large, said Raph Poplock, senior vice president of strategic partnerships, content acquisitions and business development at Warner Bros. Discovery.
—Sara Fischer, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
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Steve Inskeep, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
Additionally, employers lose about $1.47 million daily in productivity and revenue while society writ large loses another $1.34 billion each day in quality-of-life costs experienced by gun violence victims and their families.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Fiedler was held in the Carrollton municipal jail before being granted a writ of habeas corpus and released on bond, according to court documents.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2025
Discovery's commitment to Bleacher Report and sports writ large, said Raph Poplock, senior vice president of strategic partnerships, content acquisitions and business development at Warner Bros. Discovery.
—Sara Fischer, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writ
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Then factor Texas beating South Carolina last weekend and winning nine straight games since the first game against the Gamecocks, which warrants placing Texas over South Carolina by a slim margin.—
Mark Schindler,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article At Thursday’s Kane County Board Committee of the Whole meeting, Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain said the state’s new bail reform is to blame for recent public safety data that shows an increase in the county’s jail population and arrest warrant entries.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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The need to capture not only each singer and instrument but all of the crowd noise meant Maitland often had 40 tracks recording at once, all of them using microphones that were period correct to replicate how the performances would have sounded in the early 1960s.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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The agency operates a fleet of 18 satellites that are packed with instruments dedicated to observing weather phenomena essential to predicting the weather, from how hot the land surface is to the water content of the atmosphere.—
Christine Wiedinmyer,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2025
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Since that initiative started, police have made 100 arrests and issued more than 400 summonses.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 2025
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The summonses to these financial institutions and courier services direct them to produce records that will enable the IRS to identify U.S. taxpayers who have sent or received money or documents to or from the Trident Trust Group.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D.,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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Passports and naturalization documents: Keep them forever.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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No governing document, no foundational rules that define how power is distributed, how decisions are made and what rights the people have in relation to their government.—
Kam Buckner,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 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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But that estimate, the paper noted, did not include the myriad adjustments that tariffs would trigger: Consumers may substitute goods or cut demand; businesses may eat the cost or pass it on; other countries may retaliate; and global exchange and interest rates will adjust.—
Howard Schneider,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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However, his parents claim in court papers, Chase had shown no obvious depression and, while using TikTok, had searched for uplifting or more traditional teenage content.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Jed Wallace also received a subpoena, according to Lively’s spokesperson.—
Daniel S. Levine,
People.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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De Oliveira and Nauta were accused of moving dozens of boxes between a storage room and Trump's Florida residence after a federal subpoena for classified records was issued in May 2022.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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There are several other e-tax filing services, including H&R Block and TaxSlayer.—
Larry Magid,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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In the petition, St. Clair said New York is the home state of the child, who goes by R.S.C. The author, 26, alleges in the petition that Musk is the father of the boy, who was born in September 2024 (the exact date has been redacted in the filing).—
Elizabeth Rosner,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Writ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writ. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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