solicitation
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The solicitation continues the U.S.’s planned 172-million-barrel contribution to a coordinated 400-million-barrel release by International Energy Agency member countries, with deliveries under the latest awards scheduled for November and December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The agency will also issue an open solicitation for Moon Base technology demonstrations and begin pursuing a lunar communication and navigation relay constellation to improve communications between infrastructure on the Moon and Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Burach says she was outraged and, as such, wrote to departmental leadership to share her patient’s feedback about how targeted solicitation felt “creepy.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
That action was in response to news that an internal investigation at Prudential had found “multiple inappropriate cases involving improper investment solicitation and the like by current and former employees” within its Japan operations.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
“Why?” he asked; himself growing serious at his companion’s solicitation.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
Such statements, Brennan added, were different from “corrupting private agreements and solicitations historically recognized as unprotected by the First Amendment.”
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
"It cannot be stressed enough that peace and quiet is a right, and it is time to stop exposing consumers to unwanted solicitations," consumer advocacy group Que Choisir Ensemble, said in a statement.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Supreme Court has defined commercial speech as communication of the “terms of an actual or potential transaction” that has an “economic motivation”—for example, credit-card solicitations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
The solicitations are legal, but have alarmed California state officials — who loathe the idea of investors profiting from a disaster that claimed 18 lives and destroyed more than 9,400 homes and other structures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
She yielded to his solicitations, and they eloped.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
Vocabulary lists containing solicitation
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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The Awakening
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