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Recent Examples of subpoena
Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Earlier this month, Powell said the Justice Department served the Fed grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment over Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last year.
—Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
But this was not the first move to subpoena Omar’s immigration records.
—Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Powell in an unusually blunt video statement said the subpoenas were a pretext to punish the Fed for not cutting rates more quickly.
—Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Earlier this month, Powell said the Justice Department served the Fed grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment over Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last year.
—Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
Swift was subpoenaed in Baldoni’s lawsuit against Lively last May, but his lawyers later withdrew the subpoena.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
But this was not the first move to subpoena Omar’s immigration records.
—Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subpoena
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As of Thursday morning, 1,200 summonses were issued for failure to shovel sidewalks.—
Tony Aiello,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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The department started issuing warnings for noncompliant buildings last April but was only sending summonses to those that had more than 30 apartments and exceeded four warnings.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Some figures indicated that iPhone users were still avoiding upgrading despite this risk, citing multiple bugs and the controversial Liquid Glass as a reason for staying on an insecure operating system version.—
Kate O'Flaherty,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Officials cited ongoing preparation and verification work.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The agents then summoned an FBI agent to come in from outside to show Lemon the warrant on a cell phone.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
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The agents then summoned an FBI agent to come from outside to show Lemon the warrant on a cellphone.—
Audrey McAvoy,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Mu Hee’s visits her Uncle and Aunt, and requests them to ask her father the whereabouts of her mother.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Senate could split off DHS funding from the rest of the spending legislation, as Democrats are requesting, and send it back to the House.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Jan. 2026
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The annual event convenes legislators, tribal leaders, families and victims affected by MMIP.—
Emma Hall,
Sacbee.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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So, Crawford and Davis convened at Davis’ Phoenix home in January.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
Verb
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On Thursday morning, Hostetler received a call out of the blue.—
Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
24 Jan. 2026
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David Reich with the National Road Safety Foundation said that passengers should call out drivers who are being dangerous behind the wheel.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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On the company’s earnings call, analysts asked CEO Tim Cook several questions about Apple’s access to memory components, which have seen their prices skyrocket due to demand related to chips necessary for artificial intelligence data centers.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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Schnell said his department has repeatedly asked DHS to provide underlying data, methodologies or jurisdictional breakdowns but has received no response.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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My 11Alive traffic co-anchor Rachel Cox-Rosen hails from Maryland, worked her first two years as a reporter in Idaho, then switched to traffic duties at WINK in Fort Myers, Florida.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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Unsurprisingly, the majority of the American contingent hails from areas of the country with more snow than Texas with states like Colorado, Minnesota, New York and Michigan among the leaders.—
José Sánchez Córdova,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Subpoena.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subpoena. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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