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solicitation

[suh-lis-i-tey-shuhn] / səˌlɪs ɪˈteɪ ʃən /
















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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

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




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