How to Use solicitude in a Sentence
solicitude
noun- He expressed solicitude for my health.
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Along with the martinis (and the solicitude of his wife), his fame, which came young, preserved him like an onion.
—New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
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And yet these judges evince far more solicitude for former convicts’ right to bear arms than their right to vote.
—Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
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And then, my solicitude surprised no one, not me, not him, not our friends and family.
—Carolita Johnson, Longreads, 21 June 2018
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His solicitude aside, Vargas hunted those men to the exclusion of all else.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
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Not to lord victory over others, but to show solicitude and modesty in triumph.
—Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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Frederick’s solicitude for Agatha puts him on a collision course with his dad.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
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Touched by their solicitude (turns out Gary only suffered a minor concussion), Rachel invites the duo to her eatery, and a friendship commences.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Dec. 2022
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His solicitude has prompted me to write often about the oppressed, the overlooked and especially those who needed help.
—Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 June 2019
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Progressive politicians are doing the opposite, blighting the lives of the law-abiding with their warped solicitude for the criminal few.
—William P. Barr, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
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Yet there are way too many endearing acts and instances of real solicitude to dismiss him as an irredeemable jerk.
—Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2019
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Nor has Texas shown much solicitude for the businesses that provide capital to help its economy grow.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
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Acosta’s solicitude for those 21 laggards should be weighed against the fact that today’s federal minimum wage is close to a historical nadir for the U.S.
—Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
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The court’s conservative majority is not known for its solicitude toward death-row prisoners, to say the least.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
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In this story of middle-age reckoning and teenage awakening, there are plenty of moments of selfishness dressed up as solicitude.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022
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Energetic and capable, but often drunk, the senior Ms. Shields is portrayed in her daughter’s memoir with an unlikely blend of solicitude and pain.
—Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
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All of this tremendous deference to the religious sensitivities of the objectors is balanced against, well, no solicitude at all for the interests on the opposing side.
—Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 19 Mar. 2017
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In some ways, his circumstances seem even less worthy of judicial solicitude than his predecessors’ were.
—The Economist, 16 Dec. 2019
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But this international wave of solicitude seems different in important ways, not least because of its context.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2022
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Even the special solicitude accorded former presidents does not alter the outcome.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
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There’s a competitive passive aggression in their solicitude, and plenty of ego within their altruism.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
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Despite Trump’s personal solicitude of Vladimir Putin, his administration’s policies on Russia have been hawkish.
—Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2018
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If America’s policy toward China for the first four decades since normalization in 1979 can be described as benevolent solicitude, this new policy is one of flinty reciprocity.
—John Pomfret, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2017
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That’s especially so in light of the solicitude the regents recently showed to their cadre of half-million-dollar campus chancellors, supposedly doing so poorly in relation to their public university peers.
—Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2022
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Likewise, the show’s depiction of a strain of officious bureaucracy that uses an ostentatious form of well-meaning solicitude to mask various forms of self-serving malice occasionally strikes home.
—Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
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Hence the newfound hostility of conservative jurists to Chevron may be seen not as a break from the 1980s, but a continuation of solicitude by conservative jurists for Republican political authority.
—WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021
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Moreover, the president’s determination that an exercise of his own power was unconstitutional warrants the court’s solicitude.
—Josh Blackman, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
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Currie handles that emotionally complex and unspeakably sad situation with such tender solicitude.
—The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2017
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