solicit
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The alleged conspiracy involves unnamed “‘runners’ who solicit and provide clients willing to advance and stand behind fabricated narratives” and “litigation funders that seek profit from eventual judgments or settlements by fronting litigation expenses.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
AFP does not solicit testimonies from unaccompanied minors nor identify them, under its ethical code.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
But it's rarer for police department-produced podcasts to focus on cold cases and solicit tips, as the California, Colorado and Illinois departments have done.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
In a case like this, experts said, the nonprofit’s board should solicit competitive bids from outside companies, and factor in price and quality to make sure the charity gets the best value.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
And the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The fourth is the National Research Council, a staff-run operation that solicits studies, recruits committees and produces reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Every business seems to have a fund; every social media channel solicits daily.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2024
The board solicits checks online, but it’s not clear whether donors are vetted.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024
The church’s corporate arm, the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solicits donations for humanitarian relief with promises that all donations are used to help those in need.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
Hd Haldimand solicits good offices of, 111; entertainment given by, 224; personal relations with Haldimand, 313.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
The FBI alleges that from February 2022 until they were arrested, Love and Chan fraudulently solicited money from women in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Dema, who owns a marketing firm in Chicago, put his team to work and solicited help from friends, including a Stanford psychologist who helped design the chatbot’s personality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Alison Green solicited reader anecdotes about how their dogs-at-work policies have played out and considers the issue from all angles.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
A few months later, records show, Socolow solicited feedback from another member of BP’s management.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
“I called Goldman Sachs to ask them about Paulson,” said one rich man whom Paulson had solicited for funds in mid-2006.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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"The sale of stolen goods, or soliciting them, is strictly prohibited on Vinted, and we have zero tolerance for it," a spokesperson for the company said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Said claims the other male crew members on the assignment joined in and tried to draw her into the conversation by soliciting her views.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
A firm spokesperson denied soliciting clients and said it was Orchid who had tried to use Henderson to illegally gather plaintiffs in the landfill cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
His study aimed to clarify the ethical challenges of identifying, soliciting and even acknowledging patient donors.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
During Adams’s second year in nursing school in New York, a recruiter from the army came around, soliciting student nurses to join.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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