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

[suhm-uhnz] / ˈsʌm ənz /
NOUN
legal call
Synonyms


NOUN
invocation
Synonyms


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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

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

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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