solicitation
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“Self-Portrait, Age 23” reveals itself through paradoxical tensions: solicitation and rebuttal, self-assuredness and humility, innocence and knowing, solidity and dissolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
A Vinted spokesperson said the sale or solicitation of stolen goods was "strictly prohibited".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Sung, 54, who pleaded guilty to two felony counts of solicitation of bribery, is the highest-ranking sheriff’s official ever convicted by the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
They played a duet from “Zampa,” and at the earnest solicitation of everyone present followed it with the overture to “The Poet and the Peasant” Allez vous-enl Sapristir shrieked the parrot outside the door.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
L.A. prosecutors said that Bacelar uses “misleading appeals” to solicit donations, often featuring photographs of dogs unrelated to the animals described in her solicitations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
The government has reserved recent solicitations for crude to recharge the strategic stocks to domestic producers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
There he remained till November, beset by anxious solicitations both from the King and from the Ministry, for he was the guide and stay of both.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
Vocabulary lists containing solicitation
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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