solicitin a sentence
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The charity organization launched a campaign to solicit donations from the public to support their cause.solicit = ask for
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She went from beauty salon to beauty salon to solicit orders for his company’s hair products.solicit = request (or sell)
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The politician solicited support from influential business leaders for her upcoming election campaign.solicited = asked for
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Any mail soliciting anything was thrown away before my father came home.† (source)
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Lord, they called him, when they spoke of him, and solicited his opinion earnestly, as if he were some master carpenter of ninety instead of a boy seeing his first hull.† (source)
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Before anyone knew it, he was quietly soliciting business from the men in the tour groups at Joe's.† (source)
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Reagan denied yesterday that he had solicited third-country aid for the rebels, as Mr. McFarlane had said on Monday.'† (source)
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She was too shy to solicit orders, so I did it for her.† (source)
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The prosecution is soliciting an argument.† (source)
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The system informed me that I'd received over two million new unsolicited messages.† (source)unsolicited = given without a requeststandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsolicited means not and reverses the meaning of solicited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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He detailed the production of various bombs, as well as the solicitation of money abroad.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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He selected one of the cards and read what was printed on it: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ————— ROYAL EXCHANGE WARD ————— Mr. Richard J. Tierney, P.L.G., respectfully solicits the favour of your vote and influence at the coming election in the Royal Exchange Ward.† (source)
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He was not only excited with his play, but visions were gleaming on him of going the next day to Brassing, where there was gambling on a grander scale to be had, and where, by one powerful snatch at the devil's bait, he might carry it off without the hook, and buy his rescue from his daily solicitings.† (source)
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At chapel the day following the heaviest snowfall, two hundred volunteers were solicited to spend the day shoveling them out, as part of the Emergency Usefulness policy adopted by the faculty that fall.† (source)
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Do you solicit my advice on your problems?† (source)
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But the news coverage about the possible $9 million payoff outraged people in Monroeville who still questioned his innocence and titillated some of Walter's friends and family, a few of whom started soliciting him aggressively for financial help.† (source)
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