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Recent Examples of enlist
In response, the department’s whale disentanglement team evaluated the situation and decided to enlist the assistance of a fishing crew that was already at the scene.
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 June 2025
Grandma is sharing stories of the past, only breaking to enlist a young’n to do this, do that, bring her this, grab her that.
—Essence, 16 June 2025
Federal agencies have sought to enlist state and local help, alerting federal authorities of immigrants wanted for deportation and holding them until federal agents take custody.
—Sara Cline, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
The brothers Stone enlisted bass guitar wonder Larry Graham, who’d been playing in a local jazz duo with his mother.
—Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 June 2025
Grandma is sharing stories of the past, only breaking to enlist a young’n to do this, do that, bring her this, grab her that.
—Essence, 16 June 2025
Federal agencies have sought to enlist state and local help, alerting federal authorities of immigrants wanted for deportation and holding them until federal agents take custody.
—Sara Cline, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
The brothers Stone enlisted bass guitar wonder Larry Graham, who’d been playing in a local jazz duo with his mother.
—Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlist
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He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.—
Chuck Schilken,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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Regularly appearing on lists of the funniest and most romantic films ever made, the tale of Westley and the Princess Buttercup was even inducted into the National Film Registry in 2016.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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Brad Pitt stars as Sonny Hayes, a once-promising driver who is recruited to help his friend and former driver, Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), who is in danger of being ousted by the board of his racing team.—
Maureen Lee Lenker Published,
EW.com,
26 June 2025
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The researchers recruited 34 adults who’d had chronic, nonspecific LBP for more than three months and randomly divided them into two groups.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 June 2025
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Under federal law, a business can face sanctions for knowingly hiring and employing unauthorized workers.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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Together, education and health services employ a million people in the Commonwealth.—
Alan M. Leventhal,
Boston Herald,
22 June 2025
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The Trump administration has already frozen more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard, threatened to rescind its tax-exempt status and gone after the university's ability to enroll foreign students.—
Michelle Stoddart,
ABC News,
30 June 2025
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And even borrowers who could benefit from ICR may not be able to enroll quickly enough – there is a 1.5 million application backlog for IDR applications, with wide variability in processing times.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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It has been reported that Meta tried to hire OpenAI’s Noam Brown as well as Google DeepMind’s chief technology officer Koray Kavukcuoglu, who was handed a big promotion to chief AI architect across all of Google’s AI products perhaps in response.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
19 June 2025
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Mamdani’s campaign has recently hired security amid an uptick in threats leveled against him.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
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But they were moved to Harris County in 2017 after the then-presiding judge agreed that the prosecutors might struggle to impanel an impartial jury in Collin County, where Paxton lived and worked for decades.—
Lauren McGaughy,
Dallas News,
14 June 2023
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Within days of the declination, a judge approved a request from Descano to impanel a special grand jury to probe the case, renewing the possibility that Shifflett could be charged.—
Olivia Diaz,
Washington Post,
5 May 2023
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LeBron James retains the distinction of being the youngest player in league history to be taken with the top overall pick.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
28 June 2025
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The Percy Jackson books have retained a loyal fandom akin to the Harry Potter series, and Riordan makes an effort to ensure his diverse audience feels represented in the novels.—
Brendan Le,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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Yet factories in developing countries are often portrayed as hot, uncomfortable, dangerous, and wholly unwelcoming places where workers are conscripted against their interests to toil for the betterment of the faraway West.—
Tony Morley,
National Review,
17 June 2025
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The show willingly conscripts itself as a brand ambassador for the PGA, which may explain why Saudi competitor LIV Golf — the most disruptive and controversial development for the game in decades — goes largely unmentioned.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
4 June 2025
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“Enlist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlist. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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