reservists

plural of reservist

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Noun
  • The front office acquired a pair of veterans in free agency in Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston, along with nabbing Jaxson Dart on draft night.
    Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Members of the Yurok Tribe waited on the sandbar to greet them, including 90-year-old Lavina Mattz Bowers and other veterans of the struggle to affirm the tribe's fishing rights.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Israeli military has a relatively small active-duty force, comprised mostly of conscripts.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The course accepts recruits whose body fat is up to 8% higher or whose scores on the Army's aptitude test are as much as seven points lower than the requirement to become a soldier.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Both students were dubbed three-star recruits, and university president Kimo Ah Yun wrote in a letter to the community that they had each been named BIG EAST All-Academic Team athletes for their work as students.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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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“Reservists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reservists. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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