solicitation
Example Sentences
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The supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to explore creating a “buffer zone” outside county offices, prohibiting certain types of “aggressive” solicitation toward people seeking food stamps and cash aid.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025
All this for a mere solicitation to buy a Medicare Advantage plan from a big insurer.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025
Each tribute is also a plea, and the book as a whole is a solicitation: It’s past time for us to truly see these beings, recognize their majesty, and step up, finally, to protect them.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said any legislation must be consent-based and cover solicitation as well as creation to be effective.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2024
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.