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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
solicit .
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Examples
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My mother again solicits me to resume this estate; and has proposed my making over to her my half-pay instead of it, though of much less value, which, with her own two hundred pounds a year, will, she says, enable her to continue her house in town, a point I am determined never to suffer her to give up; because she loves London; and because I insist on her having her own house to go to, if she should ever chance to be displeased with ours.
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Well, the solicits are a little off to the first issue's final content.
Comic Book Resources 2010
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Artadia solicits artists through an open call and then uses national judges to make their selections.
Paul Klein: Power in Numbers -- Impressive Group Exhibitions Paul Klein 2011
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Shapiro is on the Freakonomics blog on NYT and solicits quotes for him to trace.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force” 2010
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Artadia solicits artists through an open call and then uses national judges to make their selections.
Paul Klein: Power in Numbers -- Impressive Group Exhibitions Paul Klein 2011
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Finally he solicits and receives additional names of those who might help him ‘think about literature afresh.’
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There is a Fine Arts Trust Fund, which solicits gifts of money and artworks to the Federal Reserve, and the United States Capitol Historical Society, which raises money for the research and collections work of the curator and architect of the capitol.
Daniel Grant: The U.S. Government's (Many) Art Curators Daniel Grant 2011
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The "autonomy" game does not presuppose itself outside the rules of relativism; it simply solicits recognition as one game among the others.
Art and Culture 2010
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There is a Fine Arts Trust Fund, which solicits gifts of money and artworks to the Federal Reserve, and the United States Capitol Historical Society, which raises money for the research and collections work of the curator and architect of the capitol.
Daniel Grant: The U.S. Government's (Many) Art Curators Daniel Grant 2011
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Finally he solicits and receives additional names of those who might help him ‘think about literature afresh.’
Which Academic Literary Critics Best help us to ‘think about Literature Afresh’? 2009
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