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verb

past tense of enlist

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Recent Examples of enlisted
Adjective
The enlisted oath also includes a promise to follow the lawful orders of the president and of the officers appointed above them. Samuel C. Mahaney, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2025 The money is supposed to help soldiers with food costs, but a Military.com investigation found that of the $225 million collected from enlisted soldiers’ BAS pay last year at 11 of the Army’s largest bases, $151 million was directed elsewhere. Brie Stimson, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2025 The move returns the Army base in North Carolina to being called Fort Bragg, but the name will now honor an enlisted Army soldier named Roland L. Bragg, who according to a Pentagon statement was awarded a Silver Star and the Purple Heart for combat during World War II. John Ismay, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025 She was raised in Crisfield and her sister, Marian Elzie Wilson, was also in the WACs as an enlisted member of 6888. Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enlisted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlisted
Adjective
  • Iraq: Iran, which shares a nearly 1,000-mile border with Iraq, has ties to Iraqi militant groups including Kataib Hezbollah, the Badr Organization, and Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • Bondi also shared that over 1,000 Iranian nationals have entered the country illegally in recent years and said law enforcement agencies are actively investigating them for possible ties to foreign militant groups.
    Elaine Mallon, The Washington Examiner, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • In a series of statements, Carvajal claims that Maduro empowered Tren de Aragua to act as a paramilitary arm of the state—an unofficial enforcement squad tasked with silencing dissent, intimidating opposition figures and generating illicit revenue.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
  • The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces blamed their opponents, the Sudanese army, for the strike; the army has yet to comment, the BBC reported.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • Ozzy’s father, Steve, was a great player at Boston College, inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2001 and a fourth-round pick playing five NFL seasons.
    Paul Dehner Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The Natural Disasters, Lex Luger, and Michelle McCool will also be inducted.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Paycheck Protection Program was established in 2020 to help businesses keep their workforce employed during the coronavirus pandemic, and ended in May 2021.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Toma Sparks and Justin Jenkins are still employed by the Johnson City Police Department.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The bottom line: Bipartisanship is the most obvious casualty of Schumer's new warlike posture toward the GOP.
    Hans Nichols, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Freyja, however, is a more warlike goddess, and even has a part in selecting warriors for her hall in the afterlife.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In the Kansas 3rd District, which includes southern Wyandotte County, Johnson County and areas southwest of the metro, 53,000 people are enrolled, or 7% of the population.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Offering freedom Some 165,000 residents in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District, which includes much of Kansas City and Jackson County, are enrolled – about 22% of residents, according to the health policy research organization KFF.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But Grayson was still hired after a former Sangamon County deputy gave him a good recommendation.
    Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Kennedy has hired David Geier, a man who has repeatedly claimed a link between vaccines and autism, to lead the autism research effort.
    Amanda Seitz, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And such fatal bargains are all over the work of the filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, who directed RoboCop and Starship Troopers, movies in which the bodies and souls of regular people are commandeered for the benefit of the powerful.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
  • However, there's only 1 gram of fiber in a regular bagel and white bread, Zuckerbrot said.
    Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025

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