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writs

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plural of writ

as in warrants

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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

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The documents show details for only one part of Phoenix’s portfolio, and do not include assets in retirement accounts or stakes held in companies through mutual funds, corporate bonds and other securities, the accountants confirmed.

— Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Consider a bank using AI to read documents for small-business loans.

— David Pralong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

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Precise attitude control keeps those instruments pointed at their targets as the satellites race around Earth.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
The score, composed by Damon Albarn, has a rough, analog feel to it, incorporating instruments like an Indonesian angklung.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

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And the Civilian Oversight Commission filed suit against the department in June for declining to provide certain records related to three cases of use of force the commission issued subpoenas for in February 2025.

— Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Grassley has said subpoenas for 87 White House phones yielded communications involving 44 lawmakers, including the timing and contents of personal conversations, not just phone tolls.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2026

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In 2014, three years after his death, it was found among the papers of his close friend Zdeněk Urbánek.

— Václav Havel, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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Scientists can now examine sections of DNA that were once inaccessible and detect forms of genetic variation that older methods may have missed.

— Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
This time around, though, the 45 mm case is pink gold and the dial is deep green like the mythical forest where Merlin is said to have assumed multiple forms.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026

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