writ
Example Sentences
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The states have an important and ongoing role in regulating gaming writ large.
From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026
The bot boom in academia writ large puts on display the insecurity of students just as much as it does their laziness.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
Pressley has introduced the Ending Administrative Wage Garnishment Act, which would “protect borrowers by ending garnishment as a tool writ large for student debt collection by the federal government, regardless of who’s in office.”
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
"It's why I am calling on anyone with a platform to be very responsible with their rhetoric, not to identify or target the Jewish community. That is antisemitism writ large," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
One firm, Merchant & Co., which had supplied the iron for his kiln and vault, had gone so far as to secure a writ of replevin to take the iron back.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing writ
The Constitution of the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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100 SAT words Beginning with W,X,Y, and Z
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