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

[rit] / rɪt /


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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

That requires filing a “petition for writ of certiorari” to the court.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

It had writ ’cross it in rough letters, Benjamin Alston, your Wilbur Place.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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