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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

Burach says she was outraged and, as such, wrote to departmental leadership to share her patient’s feedback about how targeted solicitation felt “creepy.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 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

Disclosing the report now, officials contended, “would prejudice the prospective seismic retrofit project solicitation process.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 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

The California lawsuit claims the text messages should be considered telephone solicitations.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 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

They also posted solicitations for the survey on X, aimed at researchers in these fields.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2024

New Jersey’s current round of solicitations closes on July 10.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2024

This was readily granted, and he was induced, by the solicitations of Fuseli, to accept some of the etchings.

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John




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