- present tense form of summon (3rd person singular).
summons
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According to the filing, attempts were made to serve Seaver with a summons on three separate occasions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
But a change of address meant he missed a court summons, triggering a deportation order that ICE agents noticed.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Around one in five shoplifting offences in 2025-26 led to a charge or summons, with 285,667 reported crimes remaining open or being closed without any action.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Others have received a summons for an interview in April next year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Marie-Laure steps onto the floor of her grandfather’s old bedroom and summons him: a curious boy with lustrous hair who smells of the sea.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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But Mr. Mamdani, who took office in January, issued an executive order in March to the NYPD, putting an end to criminal summonses for e-bikers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The summonses require the reporters to appear before a grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday, the Times said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The summonses were issued "as part of the application of administrative sanctions in accordance with the applicable provisions", the minister added.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
At Yale, the police placed protesters’ wrists into zip ties on Monday morning and escorted them onto campus shuttles to receive summonses for trespassing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
He drew up briefs, served summonses, examined deeds and records, and searched out precedents.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Of those, just 9% resulted in someone being charged or summonsed.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
“There should never have been an arrest warrant, because normally she would receive a summons in the mail. In many cases, people who are charged with nonviolent offenses like this are summonsed into court.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Many of those arrested earlier in the week had been summonsed for Russian military service, state media reported.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2022
He posted the following on Twitter after being summonsed:
From Time ● Oct. 14, 2016
"Well," said he at length, "I done summonsed you."
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
Old-fashioned landladies might refuse her lunch, it is true; and a narrowminded police force might desire to secure her, and wrap her in a rug preliminary to summonsing her.
From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
With a terrible love of summonsing, and a thorough enjoyment of a law-court, he enters into the spirit of the thing like an attorney's clerk.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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