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Recent Examples of enlisted
Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Ron Lerch, the Space Force's senior enlisted advisor for intelligence.
—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Stiles, who now lives in Horizon West, knew her condition would disqualify her from the Navy, and so did the most senior enlisted sailor on Bush, Command Master Chief Huben Phillips.
—Noelle Wiehe, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
One of the military’s major concerns, says a senior Israeli army officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, is that both its enlisted and reserve soldiers are exhausted after fighting in what has become Israel’s longest active war to date, one that has become a war of attrition.
—Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2025
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Many of them were the wives of enlisted men; some were widows, runaway servants, or otherwise impoverished; some brought children.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Ron Lerch, the Space Force's senior enlisted advisor for intelligence.
—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Stiles, who now lives in Horizon West, knew her condition would disqualify her from the Navy, and so did the most senior enlisted sailor on Bush, Command Master Chief Huben Phillips.
—Noelle Wiehe, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
One of the military’s major concerns, says a senior Israeli army officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, is that both its enlisted and reserve soldiers are exhausted after fighting in what has become Israel’s longest active war to date, one that has become a war of attrition.
—Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2025
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Israel and the Lebanese militant group exchanged fire for over a year before reaching a ceasefire in November 2024.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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Iran has been plagued for years by staggering hyperinflation, fueled by Western sanctions imposed over the hardline clerical government's nuclear program and backing for militant groups across the region.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 Jan. 2026
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Shula, a two-time Super Bowl champion, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997, his first year of eligibility.—
Amos Morale III,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Between one and three of those finalists will be inducted into the Hall along with between three and five modern-era players from a group of 15 finalists.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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The brothers met victims at nightclubs, parties and on dating apps, and recruited others for trips to ritzy locales, paying for their flights and lodging at high-end hotels or luxe vacation rentals before drugging and raping them, prosecutors said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
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In the October strike, Kaiser recruited 7,600 travel nurses and other workers to help fill positions for the striking healthcare workers.—
Pat Maio,
Oc Register,
26 Jan. 2026
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The regime eventually deployed the Basij paramilitary force to suppress hundreds of protesters.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
7 Jan. 2026
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Fars, believed close to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, reported late Monday that some 250 police officers and 45 members of the Guard’s all-volunteer Basij force have been hurt in the demonstrations.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Katharine was enrolled at the Misses Raysons’ School for girls on West 75th Street, a private school that educated its students all the way through high school.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates the federal law will result in over 1 million people exiting from Medi-Cal over the next few years — about 7% of people currently enrolled.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Licensed pyrotechnic operators receive training, but there are no clear requirements for non-operators employed by fireworks companies.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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To address this, the Statista R research team employed triangulation, combining secondary data from global sources and national datasets with primary data from university reports and data submissions to verify collected information.—
TIME Staff,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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Ludwig’s distant paternal ancestors were in fact German Jewish merchants, not warlike princes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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To many Chicagoans, the warlike atmosphere is the result of the increasing aggression of the federal government.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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Many Iranians, including those sympathetic to Palestinian rights, resent being conscripted into conflicts that are not their own.—
Kamran Talattof,
The Conversation,
6 Jan. 2026
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Gottlieb also remembered watching his dad being taken away in a black bus, conscripted by the Russian military to fight the Germans near the end of the war.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Enlisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlisted. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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