enlists

present tense third-person singular of enlist

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Verb
  • The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducts both non-performers and performers alike each year.
    Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The contract establishes minimum wage rates for daily and weekly work and inducts intimacy coordinators into the union health and pension plans.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 19 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Riles’s company now employs 18 people, and as of May, the company’s grown 43% year over year, according to John Helms, director of sales and business insights, clocking slightly over $10 million in revenue in 2025.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • Alyse Lopez-Salm, who lives in a small North Carolina town close to the military base that employs her husband, is one of the 35 million Americans who work from home.
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • The eligibility clock starts when an athlete enrolls full time or at the beginning of the academic year following their 19th birthday, whichever occurs first.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • Encouraged by Lisa, Marge enrolls in a painting class at Springfield Community College and ends up winning the college art show.
    Dan Snierson, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Exposing city taxpayers to potential liability when CVI hires return to their past ways, which is known to happen, is extraordinarily misguided.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • An organization that hires for potential and then assigns only narrow, low-risk work has not given potential a chance to prove itself.
    Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • The Division is chaired by producer Susan Arnold (13 Going On 30, America’s Sweethearts) and matriculates around 215 students annually.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Curtis plays Violet Olvido, a journalist who begins investigating a string of killings linked to a shadowy international outsourcing company that recruits remote workers across the Philippines.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • According to an article in Nature Reviews Psychology, seeing others in pain often recruits the same brain systems as feeling pain ourselves, and can be distressing, especially for highly empathetic people.
    Michele Promaulayko, Allure, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • Centralized high-scale manufacturing retains advantages for standardized products with stable demand, long runs and low sensitivity to distance.
    Robert C. Wolcott, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • As a result, your body retains more heat, increasing the risk of dehydration, heat exhaustion and heatstroke.
    Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • The outsider who engages deeply can expose assumptions that insiders stopped noticing.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Roberts greets groups of guests and celebrities with enthusiasm, engages them in conversation and poses for pictures.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
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“Enlists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlists. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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