Thesaurus results for SUMMONSES

summonses

noun

plural of summons

as in warrants

a written notice ordering a person to appear in court if you ignore a court summons, you will be fined

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Recent Examples of summonses All of them were issued summonses for disorderly conduct and released. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026 They were eventually arrested and are expected to be issued summonses and released. — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2026 Related Articles Gothamist reviewed evidence of at least 65 summonses to the DLCA. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Police said 10 people in the area around the parade were arrested and three others were issued summonses, on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to felony assault. — Anthony Izaguirre, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026

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Noun

Armed with those results, officers have gone to judges to secure arrest warrants, leading at times to cases of mistaken identity and wrongful arrest.

— Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
Investigators later obtained two additional warrants charging Gosnell with possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

— Brittany Miller , Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of warrants

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The report notes 132 subpoenas were issued, and the jury heard from 43 witnesses, seven of whom were invited to testify before the jury.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Additional information, including how the subpoenas may relate to Mullin’s claims, wasn’t immediately available.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of subpoenas

Noun

People need to be trained, processes and policies rewritten, organizations reordered, protocols invented, budgets approved, data collected and cleaned.

— Chang Che, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026
Lyntris subsequently developed processes to manufacture and test the assemblies.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026

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