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His feelings about music’s power writ large are similarly expansive and generous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But the list of female journalists he’s gone after in anger reads like a who’s who of the Washington press corps writ large.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The government injected billions into banks, insurance giant AIG and the automobile industry to prevent the collapse of individual companies that would have jeopardized the economy and the financial system writ large if they failed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It represents a leap in the evolution of Saar’s work — her smaller scale imaginings now writ large.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Message; movement; information; form; Darwin; Mendel; Morgan: all was writ into that precarious assemblage of molecules.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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California’s district judges were overrun with emergency petitions for writs of habeas corpus, a legal maneuver rarely used outside death row appeals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
General warrants and writs of assistance enraged the colonies precisely because they allowed British officials to rummage through homes and businesses without individualized suspicion.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
They tore into him with false claims and calumnies and writs against him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Alberta's chief electoral officer Glen Resler said writs were issued on Monday to administer elections across the province.
From Reuters ● May 1, 2023
When Walter, who could barely read or write, failed to file the various pleadings, writs, motions, and lawsuits the other prisoners had advised him to file, they blamed him for his predicament.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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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