writ
Example Sentences
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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
He promised that we would soon have a satire acted upon the rebels, writ by the notorious wit Major-General Burgoyne, with curtain-tunes and airs by this same excellent sapper to please the crowd.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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