writs

noun

plural of writ
1
as in warrants

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as in documents

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writs
  1. warrants
  2. documents
  3. summonses
  4. instruments
  5. subpoenas
  6. papers
  7. forms
Noun
  • At least two of the eight trespassers had active arrest warrants at the time of their breaches.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The woman was taken into custody on multiple outstanding warrants, and a man was arrested for trespassing, Chartrand said.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of warrants
Noun
  • Video recordings and documents detail how investigators pursued the case, and the possibility of abuse, for months but failed to identify a perpetrator.
    — Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier this year, tech journalism site 404 Media reported on internal documents that showed Bus Patrol allegedly working on a plan to turn its thousands of cameras into an Automatic License Plate Reader network for law enforcement.
    — Tory Wegerski, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of documents
Noun
  • Related Articles Gothamist reviewed evidence of at least 65 summonses to the DLCA.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • This is the same genius who just a few months ago gave all these scooter riders the freedom to go down one-way streets the wrong way, not having to stop for red lights or stop signs, by forbidding police from writing criminal summonses to them.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of summonses
Noun
  • Webb’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments produced dramatically different views of the object, showing how different infrared wavelengths can reveal different components of the same stellar death scene.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Scrub technologists and circulating nurses prepare and manage instruments, maintain sterility, position the patient with millimeter precision for complex spine or cranial approaches, and anticipate needs before they are spoken.
    — Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of instruments
Noun
  • The rep, the filing says, was later told by the Secret Service that the agency could not accept the subpoenas.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026
  • As Black and his team left the room, the committee’s general counsel issued subpoenas for his return.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of subpoenas
Noun
  • Douglas Degges created art out of chewed dog toys, and Lesley Finn mounted a collage of archival papers on a wooden board.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
  • In Maryland, a Salvadoran mother signed legal papers naming Father Vidal Rivas, the priest at her local church, as temporary guardian of her 7-year-old son if she and her husband were deported.
    — Maria Santana, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of papers
Noun
  • Among the deadliest forms of skin cancer, melanoma starts in melanocytes, the cells that give the skin its color.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The king’s openness in talking about his diagnosis has been credited with persuading more men to be tested for prostate cancer and other forms of the disease.
    — Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of forms
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