- present tense form of summon (3rd person singular).
summons
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Instead of basking in the wealth he had amassed as a banker and financier, Mellon accepted a summons from President-elect Warren G. Harding and got on a train to Marion, Ohio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Father Louis Cameli, a priest at Holy Name Cathedral, said the news was "not just a medical event" but a "spiritual summons" to trust God.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
Then, in the cold voice of an adder, “The bell invites me. Hear it not, Merlin, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
According to a spokesperson, who directed me to a specific code, there were 96 summonses issued for the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
They had obtained the warrant after he ignored multiple summonses to appear for questioning.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2025
He had a backlog of jury summonses he hadn’t responded to, and it was time to make it right.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
These were the summonses that you answered with your left foot forward, your right foot back, your hands guarding your face, one slightly lower than the other, cocked like a hammer.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“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
Mr Mendy, of Prestbury, has been summonsed to appear at Stockport Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021
He posted the following on Twitter after being summonsed:
From Time ● Oct. 14, 2016
"Do you know I have summonsed Morris Kerlinski?"
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
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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