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Recent Examples of enlist
The following month, j-hope became the second member of BTS to enlist in the South Korean military.
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Kelsey Lentz, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Use Your Other Senses Along with using your eyes to assess vintage jewelry while thrifting, enlist your other senses.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 10 Jan. 2026
Brands and studios regularly enlist them to interview celebrities and artists for social media content.
—Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America’s top college football stars set their fame aside to enlist in the Marines.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
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Kelsey Lentz, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Use Your Other Senses Along with using your eyes to assess vintage jewelry while thrifting, enlist your other senses.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 10 Jan. 2026
Brands and studios regularly enlist them to interview celebrities and artists for social media content.
—Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America’s top college football stars set their fame aside to enlist in the Marines.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlist
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Last November, Salt-N-Pepa and DJ Spinderella were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame.—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
24 Feb. 2026
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Legendary rap group Salt-N-Pepa and DJ Spinderella will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame during this year’s Image Awards ceremony.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2026
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In addition to their robust plow operations, city officials recruited people to shovel snow, some of whom were to begin work Sunday night to get an early start on the first wave of snowfall, Mamdani said.—
Anthony Izaguirre,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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The third installment in the high-octane action series sees franchise anchor Zhang Chi (Teng Shen) recruit an all-star team to compete in a cutthroat international competition.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Feb. 2026
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Juri also enrolled in preschool at a local YMCA with the help of her literacy coordinator, Davis said.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
26 Feb. 2026
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The number of students enrolled in an AP course who also took the corresponding exam rose 50%, from 39,843 students to 59,844 over the same period.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
25 Feb. 2026
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People of color employed at local businesses — especially restaurants — stopped coming to work for fear of arrest during their commute, forcing many to reduce their hours or close their doors altogether.—
Nick Woltman,
Twin Cities,
22 Feb. 2026
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The majority of people who stay at Hesed House are employed and could afford rent of $500 to $1,000 per month, Guzman said, but those rent levels just don’t exist in the local market.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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Desta said that the Minsk police were going from apartment to apartment, rounding up migrants who had failed to cross and sending some to detention facilities to await deportation; others have been sent to the Russian border and conscripted into the Army, to fight in Ukraine.—
Elizabeth Flock,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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The patriarch, Boon Kiat (Andi Lim), runs a noodle stand while his son (Koh Jia Ler) is conscripted, so young, into the army — until a major life twist brings him back to the homestead, and with a new stepmother at the helm.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2026
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Sankey and Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti hired the FTI Consulting Firm, which pokes holes in virtually all of Campbell’s assumptions, including the idea that college sports could replicate NBA and NFL revenues by pooling their games.—
Eddie Pells,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
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His two estranged children, desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger, to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access 8 unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in storage.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
26 Feb. 2026
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Stram talking about 65 Toss Power Trap and matriculating the ball down field was gold.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
10 Feb. 2026
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Fewer births mean fewer students are entering and matriculating through CPS, affecting early grade levels.—
Hope Moses,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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The polymer solar cell is able to retain 97% of its performance after 2,000 hours in air.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Feb. 2026
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This was an aberrance by definition and by form; our collective sanity depends on retaining the ability to parse out instances of this kind of ambient shock and pain.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Enlist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlist. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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