elicitation
Example Sentences
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In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Most especially in its horrible elicitation of readers’ letters on the anniversary of September 11, The Nation joined the amoral side.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2016
“That and elicitation: drawing people out, getting them to say things they didn’t really even know they thought. And listening, really listening.”
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2014
But research also shows that, done carefully, the deliberate elicitation of interest has many positive effects, and does not produce the negative results that educators may fear.
From Time • Nov. 8, 2013
If it is centrally organized, the system must be designed primarily for the elicitation of disbelief and the celebration of surprise.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
