writs

noun

plural of writ
1
as in warrants

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2
as in documents

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writs
  1. warrants
  2. documents
  3. summonses
  4. instruments
  5. subpoenas
  6. papers
  7. forms
Noun
  • The estimate is the science, the multiple the business warrants is the art.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Former members of Parliament The report also highlights Antoine and Cassy, former lawmakers who were the subject of warrants by the Haitian national police.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of warrants
Noun
  • The new changes in the electoral law ease some requirements for candidates seeking office, eliminate the need for some financial documents and a mandatory medical certificate, and introduce electronic voter registration.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • But an owners representative claims that part of the problem was Erica and Peter dragging their feet on providing backup documents for their application package.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of documents
Noun
  • All of them were issued summonses for disorderly conduct and released.
    — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
  • They were eventually arrested and are expected to be issued summonses and released.
    — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of summonses
Noun
  • Precise attitude control keeps those instruments pointed at their targets as the satellites race around Earth.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The score, composed by Damon Albarn, has a rough, analog feel to it, incorporating instruments like an Indonesian angklung.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of instruments
Noun
  • The labor department’s inspector general, Anthony D’Esposito, said during the briefing that his office has already issued subpoenas to the schools under scrutiny.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said subpoenas had already been served.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of subpoenas
Noun
  • In 2014, three years after his death, it was found among the papers of his close friend Zdeněk Urbánek.
    — Václav Havel, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
  • In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of papers
Noun
  • New worlds, new characters, new forms and disruptive genres are becoming the need of the hour.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Bubonic plague will often advance and turn into the other two forms of plague if untreated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of forms
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“Writs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writs. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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