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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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All the instruments on this track overlap in a way that isn't appealing to the ears.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
11 Feb. 2025
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Critics through the years have criticized the approach as encouraging racial profiling, with residents in largely Black and Hispanic communities more likely to be given summonses for low-level offenses or arrested.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2025
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After Yoon refused multiple summonses to appear for questioning, a Seoul court issued a warrant for his arrest.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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While three police detectives tried to detain Gonzalez-Munoz and another man near the food court, Gonzalez-Munoz grabbed one of the detective’s guns and fired one shot, according to police and court documents.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
11 Feb. 2025
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The document alleges that Nezhinskiy also had contact with one of the Ohio suspects less than a week before Burrow's house was broken into.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
11 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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With the help of Rosie’s granddaughter Andrea and Frank Amidei’s daughter Margie, I was delivered Rosie’s handwritten copy of her homemade potato soup recipe dated on the lined notebook paper as transcribed in 2002.—
Phil Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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The paper’s findings were first spotted by MIT Technology Review.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
7 Feb. 2025
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The commission was created in compliance with Assembly Bill 1885, which requires Sacramento County to create an oversight board for the Sheriff’s Office with subpoena authority, said Paul Curtis, the chair of the County Community Review Commission.—
Emma Hall,
Sacramento Bee,
5 Feb. 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,
22 Jan. 2025
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The filing alleged the Trump administration had failed to comply with the order.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2025
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One of the three people accused of staging a racist scene in an attempt to support Colorado Springs’ Black mayor claimed in a court filing this week that the trio’s actions were protected free speech — not a threat.—
Shelly Bradbury,
The Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Writ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writ. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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