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
  • Matcha House now employs about 10 part-time workers, and Yeung no longer needs to be behind the counter every day.
    Mike Winters, CNBC, 19 June 2026
  • The company now employs more than 1,600 staff members and works with an additional network of freelance creators and production partners.
    Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • According to the college’s most recent figures, Lake Forest College enrolls more than 1,800 students from 43 states and 114 countries.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • Simone hires Zoe as her assistant, in what appears to be a dream job.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • When her father hires a young bodyguard to protect her, the disparate personalities can’t help but find themselves, well, drawn to each other.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 10 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
  • Musk retains the power to elect and remove the directors his share class appoints.
    Mary Johnstone-Louis, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • American military strikes in June 2025 reduced several Iranian nuclear facilities to rubble, but Iran still retains roughly 400 kilograms of 60%-enriched uranium.
    Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • In each case, companies have less control over how their products and experiences are presented before a customer engages directly.
    Teresa Mackintosh, Fortune, 13 June 2026
  • Business for the Arts Broward educates the business community about the importance of our arts and cultural community and engages them in building connections among cultural vitality, creative success and economic development.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
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“Enlists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlists. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.

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