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Authorities said Mr Pleterski may have solicited investors as recently as February 2024.

From BBC • May 16, 2024

That has opened the door to a dramatic possibility: that prominent sports officials and businessmen who were found to have solicited or accepted bribes could see their convictions set aside and their fortunes returned.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2024

New Mexico law enforcement officers have solicited help from New York authorities to retrieve Alec Baldwin’s cellphone in the “Rust” shooting investigation — more than three weeks after detectives asked to search the phone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2022

I’m going to guess that a lot of the people who use you as a “sounding board” aren’t actually listening all that closely to the very advice and comfort they have solicited.

From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2021

The emperor Honorius expresses his surprise, that he must compel the reluctant provinces to accept a privilege which they should ardently have solicited.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Milman, Henry Hart