summarily
Example Sentences
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Any faculty member in a department other than sports would be summarily fired, maybe indicted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Leqaa Kordia, 32, was summarily renditioned from Newark to the overcrowded Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she is still being held today.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
In the private marketplace of ideas, he argued, an employee can be summarily fired if the boss doesn’t like it.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025
While the family was put in a Texas detention center, the government placed them under expedited removal, when immigration officers can summarily deport certain noncitizens without a court hearing.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2025
His lawyers objected, but the judge summarily dismissed their complaints.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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