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request

[ri-kwest] / rɪˈkwɛst /




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Prigozhin and Wagner didn’t respond to a request for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"To ensure volunteers can carry out their work safely on council land and indemnity insurance is provided we request that volunteers register with Cormac at [email protected] so we can give ongoing advice and support."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Despite a request from litigants to overturn prior rulings in Kisor, a slim majority of the court ruled that judges were still required to defer to an agency’s interpretations of its regulations.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

Charles’ campaign did not reply to a request for comment.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

I let that request hang in the air, and I know that my silence becomes a kind of answer in itself.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Neither the developer nor township officials responded to AFP's requests for comment.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Tiffany’s, Garrity’s and Masterson’s campaigns did not reply to requests for comment.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

MIT and Whitehead didn’t respond to requests for comment Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

OpenAI did not respond to requests for more information from The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Miss Lulu said, “The truth is that there are often requests for someone to sing at a funeral, and since Idabelle Bleeker passed, there hasn’t been anyone with the voice to do it.”

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo

State District Judge Joseph Montano ruled Friday that prosecutors improperly prevented grand jurors from hearing testimony from witnesses they had requested, compromising the integrity of the proceedings.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

He requested audiovisual materials from Paramount, and Paramount delivered them.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

Mejia demanded the information, much of which was also requested by The Times, as required in the 2021 contract that defines the working relationship between LA28 and the host city of the 2028 games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Industry Minister Melanie Joly had earlier requested that the steel company produce a plan to comply with promises on jobs she said were agreed to when Cliffs bought Stelco in 2024 for about $2.5 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I got them, and she requested a bar of chocolate with almonds and two kilos of apples.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The leaders of the A.I. industries are extremely unpopular and make bad messengers for requesting this sort of access.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Klitschko filed a petition in a Los Angeles County court on Sept. 24, requesting that he be allowed to act as Kaya’s representative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Later that spring, she began requesting additional payments from Deters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

These caps would cover freehold estates and privately managed estates where people can face additional fees for making cosmetic changes to their properties and requesting documents like building safety certificates.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

On the day he was sworn in, I wrote him a letter requesting a meeting.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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