writ
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Writ large, Europe needs a more dynamic financial engine for the capital-intensive goals its leaders have set out in defense, green transition and artificial intelligence.
From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025
Also known as the "Great Writ of Liberty", habeas corpus grants prisoners the right to challenge their imprisonment in a court of law.
From BBC • May 11, 2025
The lawsuit, filed in 2022, hinges on a Philippine legal remedy called the Writ of Kalikasan.
From Science Magazine • May 2, 2024
Writ large she channeled the clash of the 2010s, and it needed to be told.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2023
Writ large, that wilderness was America, even the globe itself, but more specifically it was the redwood bungalow Zora lived in in Noe Valley and where I was now living, too.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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