enlists

present tense third-person singular of enlist

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Verb
  • Chen’s Prince Group employs thousands of people and bills itself as one of the biggest conglomerates in Cambodia, with investments in luxury real estate, banking services, hotels, major construction developments, grocery stores and even luxury watches.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Rose Batteries employs about 30 people at the Corporate Court location, according to the company.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At this stage of the M&A sequence, a company hires financial advisors and, generally, prepares financial information to share with potential bidders.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As the rest of the world hires up for an AI future, the company once known as Facebook reportedly hopes to cut about 600 jobs in its artificial intelligence unit.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In Stomp the Yard, Columbus Short stars as DJ Williams, a gifted street dancer who enrolls at a fictional HBCU to start fresh after personal tragedy.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Until recently, Academy, a public school that enrolls more than three hundred elementary-age students, had a single dishwashing machine that could handle one large sheet pan at a time.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Here, Elizabeth McGovern’s Helen recruits a guy named Guy (Nicholas Denton) for an off-the-books mission.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • First, where the classic Boulevardier recruits the broad oaky shoulders of bourbon or rye for its base, Taylor substituted in apple brandy, which is similarly barrel aged but is distilled from apples instead of corn or rye, giving a core fruity quality beneath the familiar oak.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Free Press retains editorial control of this work.
    Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Despite its modern exterior design, the Buzz retains some signatures of yesteryear’s vehicles.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Organizers said they are dedicated to delivering a program that engages a wide and diverse audience of designers, students, businesses and the general public.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The fact that the mural engages both sides of the building, facing the street on one side and a basketball court on the other, perfectly captures the project’s goal of bringing art into the flow of everyday experience.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The collection also pays tribute to the Belgian designer’s work for Y/Project, with various pieces in the collection—from boots through to prints—nodding to key archival designs.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The general fund also pays for parks, trash pickup, public works, code enforcement, and the county’s administrators and management staff, according to budget documents.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This assumes the utility sees a demand of about 1,500 MW to supply data centers.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Matty assumes the court will automatically apply the same protections to Dasha in the new case.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Enlists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlists. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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