solicitation
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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
The solicitation marks a retreat in quantity but an upgrade in quality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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
All this for a mere solicitation to buy a Medicare Advantage plan from a big insurer.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2025
They played a duet from “Zampa,” and at the earnest solicitation of every one present followed it with the overture to “The Poet and the Peasant.”
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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Posillico alleges in the lawsuit that it incurred “substantial bid preparation and proposal costs” drawing up plans for federal solicitations that were “not genuine competitive opportunities.”
From Salon ● May 25, 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
And then there were solicitations from organizations representing a Noah’s Ark of endangered animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
They also posted solicitations for the survey on X, aimed at researchers in these fields.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
To these motives were added Clara’s wishes, and, as she herself states, her pressing solicitations.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
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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