as in conscript
a person forced or required to enroll in military service a new crop of inductees produced by the draft

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Recent Examples of inductee Notable inductees have included author Maya Angelou, President Bill Clinton (honoree), football player Willie Davis and the Little Rock Nine. Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2025 The Women in Manufacturing Association announced that Virginia Ashlock Harn, manufacturing principal at accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen in Minnesota, is among 12 2025 inductees nationwide. Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025 What few may recall, however, is that Cunningham had an unlikely friendship with two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stephen Stills, who is as unabashedly liberal in most of his political views as Cunningham was unabashedly conservative in most of his. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 There’s also former head coach Bill McCartney, a College Football Hall of Fame inductee who led the Buffaloes to their last national championship in 1990. Andy Frye, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inductee
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Noun
  • The Israeli military has a relatively small active-duty force, comprised mostly of conscripts.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
  • What: Complete elimination of Kurdish autonomy, with the SDF dissolved into individual conscripts.
    Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
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  • Federal prosecutors in New York said Maxwell helped Epstein recruit, groom and ultimately abuse girls as young as 14.
    John Parkinson, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Mizzou has already hosted top big-man target Tristan Reed, a four-star recruit out of Link Academy in Branson.
    Joseph Pastilha, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • But quarterback development in the NFL is hardly linear, especially for draftees who are tossed into the fire.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The others are rookie draftees, with Grant being the first-round pick, Phillips a fifth-rounder and Biggers a seventh-rounder.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Inductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inductee. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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