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  • past participle of write.
  • past tense form of write.
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writ

[rit] / rɪt /


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This, sadly, is also the story of traditional TV writ large—kept afloat by football.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

“Tech writ large is now” 40% of global equity value, Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, said in a note emailed Tuesday.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

The government’s lawyers knew it and conceded that they could not distinguish our case from the judge’s prior ruling, and she granted the writ the same day.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

Upon the wall, writ large, was a chart labeled “Mammalia — or, Beasts that Give Suck.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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