enroll

variants also enrol
1
as in to register
to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member the community college will enroll anyone who has a GED or high school diploma

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2
as in to enter
to put (someone or something) on a list can I enroll you on the list of volunteers for the church supper?

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Recent Examples of enroll The provision will undo a Biden-era rule that was estimated to allow 147,000 immigrants to enroll in coverage. Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 20 June 2025 Tweak to child care reimbursement could open up more seats for children HB 2294 allows local workforce development boards to provide higher reimbursement rates to child care providers who enroll children with scholarships. Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2025 Participants can use the program to earn a high school diploma, work toward a college degree, enroll in training and certificate programs at accredited schools, or improve their English skills. Ryan Stowers, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 Currently, roughly 1 in 5 schools enroll students among whom 75% or more are of a single race or ethnicity, according to data shared at a committee hearing on Wednesday. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for enroll
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  • After the ceremony, new citizens were encouraged to register to vote at a table set up in the back of the room, staffed by the Maricopa County Recorder's Office.
    Hannah Dreyfus, AZCentral.com, 5 July 2025
  • Click here to register and place a $5 bet on any of these markets and get the reward if your bet settles as a win.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
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  • The irreplaceable power of human relationships — of teacher-student trust — must remain central, especially as AI enters the classroom.
    C.M. Rubin, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • This immensely slow-moving and contemplative energy joins us into Leo season, which starts when the sun enters this confident fire sign on July 22.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
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  • Jin was the first to enlist in December 2022 and the first to be discharged last June.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
  • Collaborative decks, like the Slow Holler tarot, enlist dozens of artists from varied regional and marginalized identities to put their own spin on iconic images.
    John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
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  • Silky sharks are listed under CITES Appendix II and are considered globally vulnerable.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The building is listed at $2.49 million, a drop from its original price of $2.9 million.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2025
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  • From 2020–2024, more than thirty graduates from Deerfield matriculated to Brown University and Yale University, respectively.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Until that point, Victor had been living a typical postgrad creative life in Brooklyn, matriculating through the stand-up comedy scene and working part-time at the woman-run satire website Reductress.
    Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025

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“Enroll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enroll. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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