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
Last month, the agency posted a solicitation with draft contract terms seeking 5,500 detention beds in Colorado, Florida, Pennsylvania and Washington.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
"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
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 California lawsuit claims the text messages should be considered telephone solicitations.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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
Beggars are rare in Greece; but the Argos children followed us both to and from the amphitheatre with mendicant solicitations.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Vocabulary lists containing solicitation
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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