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accost

verb as in approach for conversation or solicitation

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At 4:55 p.m., the suspect accosted a woman another gas station.

Making his rounds, Im was accosted by a column of chattering elementary school students in yellow uniforms.

She says she has had to calm some women down who have been spoken to or accosted by protesters on their way in for an appointment.

From BBC

She says the complaints against her — one for allegedly making an inappropriate gesture to another officer and the other for accosting a civilian employee — were “fabricated” as a way of punishing her for speaking out.

Jackson accosts Alberta about her past alcoholism, has distressing sex abuse flashbacks and refuses to allow crosses in her house–seeing it as Alberta’s cop-out until faith saves the family.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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