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writ

noun as in court order

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"The North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed it. What do we do with it? Do we review the Supreme Court motion to dismiss the prohibition writ?"

From Salon

And we know from the Southern Poverty Law Center, that an increasing focus of far-right paramilitary groups is violence against trans people and LGBTQ+ writ large.

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Study the statistics from those past two defeats and the problem is writ large.

From BBC

The judge ruled that he had 14 days to file a writ of habeas corpus to determine whether the state’s detention was valid; if approved, a new hearing would be scheduled.

In southern Syria, tribal militias did not recognise the writ of the Assads.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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