as in drafts
to pick especially for required military service
young men worried about whether they would be conscribed to fight in this latest conflict
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Piliere has overseen the Marlins’ MLB drafts the past two years.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025 -
Often, when a team drafts a player billed as the next superstar, there are questions surrounding whether or not that player will live up to all the hype.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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Legendary spymaster Al Pacino finds brilliant tech-head Colin Farrell and recruits him into the CIA, hinting strongly that the young man’s late father was also working for the organization.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Herodotus recruits evidence from passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey to show that Homer himself knew at least fragments of this tale yet opted to tell another, better yarn.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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