ask (for)

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as in to woo
to act so as to make (something) more likely you are asking for trouble if you invite her ex to the wedding

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as in to request
to give a request or demand for the surgeon asked for the scalpel

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ask (for)
Verb
  • The punishment was far less than the maximum six-month sentence sought by the government but more than the probation that Papadopoulos and his lawyers had asked for.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But keeping the value in conference championships helps preserve the stakes of the regular season, which leaders have sought to protect.
    Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But platforms seem to be wooing new users not by pretending to be a one-to-one replacement of the app, but by picking one successful aspect of TikTok and promising to do better than ByteDance’s biggest U.S. property ever could.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The company hopes these software features, paired with a high-quality piece of hardware, will be enough to woo users across the continent away from the competition.
    Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Many visitors will seek out her section near the T-Mobile entrance gate by Lot M, and co-workers have requested to work directly with her.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The program enabled 1,450 people a day to schedule appointments at a port of entry to request asylum.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In the late Nineties, David Spero invited all four Raspberries to his house to see if a reunion was possible.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Designed with geometric forms that evoke the pyramids in the backdrop, the museum invites visitors to journey through ancient Egypt’s 3,000-year history, starting with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 B.C. and ending with the Roman conquest in 30 B.C.
    Kate McMahon, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Among them was the plight of Marie Freyre, a 14-year-old afflicted with cerebral palsy and seizures who died within 24 hours of a long, bumpy ride from a Tampa hospital to the Golden Glades nursing home, ordered despite objections from her family.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Less than 10 minutes after Garcia entered her information into the Google spreadsheet, someone had already reached out and ordered a stand-in c for Mr. Guacamole that was on its way to the family's temporary address, at Garcia's brother-in-law's house in San Dimas.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Ask (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ask%20%28for%29. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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