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as in to recruit
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Recent Examples of enlist
Fans don’t talk only about who can sing but about who can sang — enlisting their physical gifts and knowledge of tradition in performances that reach past exhaustion.
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Adam Bradley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
For the final prank, Davis enlisted the help of Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts to go after Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
But Pitino enlisted his full court pressure, taking advantage of the size and athleticism across the St. John’s roster, which came into the game with KenPom’s fourth-most efficient defense.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2025
Tommy enlisted in August 2020, went through the Army Airborne School and then the qualification course for special forces.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
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Adam Bradley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
For the final prank, Davis enlisted the help of Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts to go after Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
But Pitino enlisted his full court pressure, taking advantage of the size and athleticism across the St. John’s roster, which came into the game with KenPom’s fourth-most efficient defense.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2025
Tommy enlisted in August 2020, went through the Army Airborne School and then the qualification course for special forces.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlist
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His name now graces streets, parks, schools and universities, and Malcolm X Day is celebrated in more than a dozen states, including Nebraska, which inducted Malcolm X into its hall of fame in 2024.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The Wayans family will also be honored at the ceremony and inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
22 Feb. 2025
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The first class of high school interns was recruited from a list of youth attendees at Harvard University’s 2024 Annual Global Health and Leadership Conference.—
Brianna Kamienski,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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With Alex Rider, the concept of a teenager being recruited to be a spy was pretty bold.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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Forest is made to enable programs that employ a quantum processor to provide traditional software new capabilities, similar to how a computer may have a graphics card.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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His warp drive solution to general relativity employs a region of perfectly flat space.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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In the letter template from the state’s Office of Religious and Independent School Support, parents were given a choice: Find a different religious school, enroll in public school, or supplement with home school while monitored by the district.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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Landlords complained that would force them to enroll in a voluntary federal program, which would subject them to unwanted red tape.—
Mike Hendricks,
Kansas City Star,
14 Feb. 2025
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Regional airline crews also are held to the same high training standards and minimum flight hours as mainline aviators, although because of the higher pay scales at mainline carriers, regional airlines often hire pilots that are newer to the industry.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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The Big Ten has hired consecutive commissioners who care little about anything but their own conference’s TV fortunes.—
Stewart Mandel,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
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But they were moved to Harris County in 2017 after the then-presiding judge agreed that the prosecutors might struggle to impanel an impartial jury in Collin County, where Paxton lived and worked for decades.—
Lauren McGaughy,
Dallas News,
14 June 2023
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And in January, a few months after his prosecutors began revisiting the potential hush-money case, Mr. Bragg impaneled the grand jury that has now indicted Mr. Trump.—
Sean Piccoli,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2023
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Unlike Chase, Aykroyd worked hard to retain Carter’s affectations and appearance, while also adding a slyness that implied a deeper calculation.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 2025
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This combined with a stretching of the heart muscle that often happens when someone with kidney disease retains too much water, can lead to heart failure.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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The plot concerns three main players: a suave con man (Ha Jung-woo), the low-level grifter he’s conscripted into a scheme (Kim Tae-ri), and a housebound heiress (Kim Min-hee), all locked in a duplicitous love triangle.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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Misha, a girl whose brother has been conscripted to the frontlines, transforms from a vivacious teen to a gloomy one burdened with the latent possibility of tragedy.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Enlist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlist. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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