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The states have an important and ongoing role in regulating gaming writ large.

From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026

As president, he didn’t when he suspended the writ of habeas corpus early in the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 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

They take the view that science is, in essence, common sense applied systematically, or, as Karl Popper put it, ‘common-sense knowledge writ large, as it were’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton