writ
Example Sentences
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Across Havana, the ravages of time, lack of maintenance and overcrowding is writ large in the facades of one of the best preserved colonial cities in the Americas.
From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026
“The American consumer writ large is fragile, and under increasing financial pressure,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
It’s that rarest of investigative-journalism properties: a consistently profitable enterprise that commands the levels of advertising expenditures that have otherwise plunged across traditional TV and informational media writ large.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
When we got inside the post office Mr. MacMahon hefted a box onto the shelf then looked in a mailbag that had buxton writ ’cross the front.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Vocabulary lists containing writ
The Constitution of the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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100 SAT words Beginning with W,X,Y, and Z
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