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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 In March, Mamdani stopped the NYPD from issuing them criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses. — Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 Cops had issued summonses to the driver twice before, once in 2024 for failing to yield to a pedestrian and in 2018 for disobeying a traffic device, officials said. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 11 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 Forty-one people were issued criminal court summonses, according to police. — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 13 June 2026

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Noun

After reviewing the work, Feng Zhang, a CRISPR genome-editing pioneer and professor at MIT and the Broad Institute, said the finding warrants further investigation.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
This month, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said ICE agents could serve warrants at polling places.

— Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026

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Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images The House voted yesterday to hold Leon Black in contempt of Congress over the former Apollo Global Management CEO's refusal to comply with subpoenas tied to an investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
The committee issued two subpoenas seeking to compel Black to produce the NDAs and to appear for a deposition July 16.

— Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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Which sounds naff, but a great company is just actually a collection of processes that [also allow people to] innovate and change and collaborate.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026
An interim government overhaul of long-standing vaccine procurement processes may have limited stockpiles, Faizullah says.

— Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026

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