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solicit

[suh-lis-it] / səˈlɪs ɪt /


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Under an order from Japan’s Financial Services Agency, the financial services firm’s Prudential Life Insurance unit cannot solicit new business until Jan. 31, 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

AFP does not solicit testimonies from unaccompanied minors nor identify them, under its ethical code.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

But it's rarer for police department-produced podcasts to focus on cold cases and solicit tips, as the California, Colorado and Illinois departments have done.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

However, I am connected to a doctor whose name was used to solicit contributions to a hospital.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Those who swelled their little unarmed strength into the reckoning one of leagues, clubs, societies, sisterhoods designed to hold or withhold, move or stay put, make a way, solicit, comfort and ease.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

The fourth is the National Research Council, a staff-run operation that solicits studies, recruits committees and produces reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Two-days in-office gets a high-five, while three solicits a knowing shrug.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025

Many of the hacking cases I deal with as a consumer advocate started with phishing, a technique that solicits sensitive information by pretending to be a legitimate business.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Each month, Moore Aloha solicits essays through a prompt.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

He constantly solicits the Board of Aldermen for this or that right or privilege and nearly always succeeds.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus

Testimony the panel solicited was "unable to definitively dispel certain theories" surrounding Epstein's death, the report states, including accounting for a lapse in surveillance footage.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

The FBI alleges that from February 2022 until they were arrested, Love and Chan fraudulently solicited money from women in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Alison Green solicited reader anecdotes about how their dogs-at-work policies have played out and considers the issue from all angles.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

The hospital should absolutely inform physicians if their names and likenesses are being employed in this way, and they should also be told in advance what patients will be solicited in their name.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

“I called Goldman Sachs to ask them about Paulson,” said one rich man whom Paulson had solicited for funds in mid-2006.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"The sale of stolen goods, or soliciting them, is strictly prohibited on Vinted, and we have zero tolerance for it," a spokesperson for the company said.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Although dissents aren’t rare, Fed chairmen have often sought to project leadership by soliciting consensus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Nearly 80 faculty and staff formed 10 design teams and spent months soliciting ideas and suggesting ways to rework the organizational structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

A firm spokesperson denied soliciting clients and said it was Orchid who had tried to use Henderson to illegally gather plaintiffs in the landfill cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

Because German actors, actresses, producers, and directors were now all beholden to him for their careers, they began to flock around Goebbels, fawning over him and soliciting his favor.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown


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