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Recent Examples of writ
Mangione will have two weeks to apply for a writ of habeas corpus in order to challenge the extradition.
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Liam Quinn, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Gascón’s announcement comes more than a year after Erik and Lyle Menendez filed a writ of habeas corpus asking the court to vacate their 1996 conviction, citing new evidence.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
Two countries have quit the court altogether, shaking belief in the inevitable, gradual expansion of The Hague’s writ.
—Eugene Kontorovich, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
The office's writs and appeals division, meanwhile, was combing through new evidence and questions surrounding evidence in the previous trials.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
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Liam Quinn, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Gascón’s announcement comes more than a year after Erik and Lyle Menendez filed a writ of habeas corpus asking the court to vacate their 1996 conviction, citing new evidence.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
Two countries have quit the court altogether, shaking belief in the inevitable, gradual expansion of The Hague’s writ.
—Eugene Kontorovich, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
The office's writs and appeals division, meanwhile, was combing through new evidence and questions surrounding evidence in the previous trials.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writ
Noun
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One individual was arrested at the scene, though authorities clarified the bust was for a warrant unrelated to congestion pricing.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
9 Jan. 2025
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This development warrants attention for four reasons.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Similarly, an instrument aboard NOAA’s JPSS-2 satellite, NOAA-21, took this picture also highlighting the hotspots from the fire and the length of the smoke plume extending out over the ocean.—
Meredith Garofalo,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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To that end, the composer traveled the world collecting recordings that would find their way into the score, starting with instrument maker Abraham Cupeiro in Northern Spain.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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The card tells authorities they were presented with it because its holder wishes to remain silent and wishes not to sign documents, among other things.—
Peter Breen,
Chicago Tribune,
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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But such a tie-up could make sense, at least on paper, for a few reasons: Musk, and by extension President-elect Donald Trump, gets to play the hero to a whole generation of young social media users.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
15 Jan. 2025
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The print features a woman peering at a paper from beneath a large, fluffy hat.—
Brigit Katz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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In its filing, TikTok also said the pause would allow the Trump administration time to weigh in on the legal dispute.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Writ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writ. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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