solicited
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He has solicited more payments from San Francisco’s old-money elite than from tech companies, according to an analysis of filings.
He bought newspaper ads and solicited favorable editorials, appealing to Americans’ patriotic sympathies.
From Barron's
Under new Postmaster General David Steiner, the Postal Service solicited bids from Amazon and other businesses for the service for the first time.
Galleries are also closing and downsizing, and films that don’t oblige the content farm aren’t solicited as readily as influencer-helmed or easily digestible projects that can be played as background noise for scrolling.
From Los Angeles Times
They highlighted briefing materials and other internal Fed staff reports—some marked “Do Not Disseminate” in red and all-caps—that Rogers solicited from colleagues or otherwise accessed and forwarded to his personal Gmail account.
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