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
  • During the post arrest investigation, the government submitted warrants for Lemon’s YouTube subscribers, which was rejected by a federal judge.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • His mother was fired from the Johnson County jail after allegedly checking the system to see whether warrants existed for her son and his wife.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of warrants
Noun
  • The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, has released reports on declining inventories based on budget documents and other public information.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • According to city documents, the Development Process Committee conditionally approved the annexation, rezoning and variances in July.
    — Emily McLeod, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of documents
Noun
  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ended the practice of issuing criminal summonses to e-bike riders for minor infractions this year.
    — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • To that end, Kersten said, the TLC issued more than 3,500 summonses for unlicensed operations in the first six months of 2026 — compared to 4,369 such summonses issued during all of 2025.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of summonses
Noun
  • According to Indian investigators, certain PNB officials issued financial instruments known as Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) to companies controlled by Modi, Choksi and their associates.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
  • While one group of works treats gravity as an anchor to bodily existence, another examines documents and archives, asking how words—our primary instruments of connection—can simplify experience, distort truth and generate misunderstanding.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of instruments
Noun
  • Law enforcement agencies can also obtain digital information through search warrants, court orders, subpoenas and emergency requests to technology companies.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The four letters were sent on separate days in July along with subpoenas for four different inmates, whose names were redacted as part of typical privacy redactions under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of subpoenas
Noun
  • Now condemned and boarded up, cordoned off by sagging tape, dirty roll-up door set to adorn the front pages of tomorrow’s papers.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Igor Cassini, a former society columnist for the Hearst papers and the brother of Oleg Cassini, Jacqueline Kennedy’s favorite couturier, was the chairman of Le Club’s board.
    — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of papers
Noun
  • Rotate proudly champions the dress in all its forms, a vision brought to life by Danish influencers Thora Valdimars and Jeanette Friis Madsen.
    — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Gauss described a method to combine two of these forms to produce a third.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of forms
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