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Recent Examples of drafteeOther notable high-school draftees who got a taste of full-season ball with the Storm include C Ty Harvey (fifth round) and C Truitt Madonna (11th).—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025 Two other recent draftees have also been assigned to Salem.—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025 But quarterback development in the NFL is hardly linear, especially for draftees who are tossed into the fire.—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025 The others are rookie draftees, with Grant being the first-round pick, Phillips a fifth-rounder and Biggers a seventh-rounder.—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025 That doesn’t even account for the likes of Andrew Nembhard, Isaiah Jackson, Bennedict Mathurin, Jarace Walker and other Pacers draftees that have grown under the team’s current coaching staff.—Tony East, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
For more than three years, Ukrainian soldiers, conscripts and ordinary civilians have given their lives to defend their country’s borders, and Vasyanovych is speaking to Variety just days before the latest onslaught of Russian missiles on Kyiv.
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Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
Villada said Jhonatan, for instance, was not a professional soldier, but rather a conscript who served for only two years in the Colombian military.
In January, dozens of Ultra-Orthodox recruits joined the military’s new Hasmonean Brigade.
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Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
The recruit was a victim-witness advocate at the Worcester District Attorney’s office before joining the MSP, so that office recused itself from the investigation.
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