Example Sentences

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And until now, there has been too little research done to assess whether the survey questions are eliciting valid data for Latinos.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2023

“She is further encouraged that individual voices are eliciting real change,” Alderman said in an emailed statement.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2017

Remarks such as those by Bozdag are eliciting equally harsh responses from the West.

From US News • Jul. 27, 2016

At the National Zoo, two panda bears are eliciting coos.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the old American distrust of all power, he believes that our current social ills are eliciting new assertions of power, and that its nature should therefore be better understood.

From Time Magazine Archive