as in drafted
to pick especially for required military service
was conscripted into the army shortly after turning 18
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Recent Examples of conscripted
Advertisement On any one of those issues alone, Mamdani’s campaign could have been in a free fall if not conscripted to a quick and public immolation.
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Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
For the Chapter 02 womenswear and menswear ranges, the brand conscripted Dutch-Indonesian artist Miko Veldkamp.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2025
For the next nine months, Stuart proceeded to lead thousands of supporters, militiamen, and conscripted soldiers in a military campaign now known as the Jacobite rising of 1745.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
The book reaches beyond India, though, and lays out how a transnational empire of fraud is being built in which Indians, alongside unemployed young people from dozens of low-income countries, have become foot soldiers in these scamming operations, sometimes conscripted against their will.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
The fanciest, most famous restaurants are still doing mostly table service, but just about every other establishment has been conscripted into the army that ferries hot food out of professional kitchens and into American mouths 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
Qing Yuan had been conscripted to the morgue, too, just before Qi Chu, in 1950, after his father had been executed and his mother had died of grief.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Some scholars have suggested that the boys were prized for their looks and conscripted into homoerotic pageants created by Christopher Marlowe.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
After the revolution, Panahi was conscripted into military service.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
For the Chapter 02 womenswear and menswear ranges, the brand conscripted Dutch-Indonesian artist Miko Veldkamp.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2025
For the next nine months, Stuart proceeded to lead thousands of supporters, militiamen, and conscripted soldiers in a military campaign now known as the Jacobite rising of 1745.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
The book reaches beyond India, though, and lays out how a transnational empire of fraud is being built in which Indians, alongside unemployed young people from dozens of low-income countries, have become foot soldiers in these scamming operations, sometimes conscripted against their will.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
The fanciest, most famous restaurants are still doing mostly table service, but just about every other establishment has been conscripted into the army that ferries hot food out of professional kitchens and into American mouths 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
Qing Yuan had been conscripted to the morgue, too, just before Qi Chu, in 1950, after his father had been executed and his mother had died of grief.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Some scholars have suggested that the boys were prized for their looks and conscripted into homoerotic pageants created by Christopher Marlowe.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
After the revolution, Panahi was conscripted into military service.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conscripted
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But where and if you get drafted — that only gets you so far.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Chiefs drafted Rice in 2023.—
Daniel S. Levine,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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Upon arrival, officers found the injured man and woman, and the officers applied a tourniquet and recruited help from emergency medical personnel, per the release from PPB.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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To help fill the gap, the research team relied on data from 27,670 adults in Sweden recruited to provide dietary data between 1991 and 1996.—
Julia Ries Wexler,
Health,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Conscripted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conscripted. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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