solicitation
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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
Prosecutors had sought an arrest warrant for Han on four charges including improper solicitation and graft, and occupational embezzlement.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025
Still, the measure is needed, the lawmakers said, because there are no rules that specifically target solicitation of gifts or payments by individuals and companies to try to curry favor with the president.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025
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
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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