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  • present tense form of summon (3rd person singular).
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summons

[suhm-uhnz] / ˈsʌm ənz /
NOUN
legal call
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NOUN
invocation
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"You're not a eukaryote if you don't have sterols or comparable membrane lipids," Summons says.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026

A spokesperson for the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service confirmed that a Personal Injuries Summons had been received and registered by the Court of Session.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2024

Attorneys for Combs alleged in the 83-page motion, obtained by The Times, that the Bad Boy Records founder “was not served with the Summons and Complaint,” which Cardello-Smith had filed in June.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

When reading "Bird Summons," I kept imagining a piece of paper with lines of string tied to each corner.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2020

Summons of the Commons But it was just this sense of his weakness which prompted the Earl to an act that has done more than any incident of this struggle to immortalize his name.

From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by Green, John Richard




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