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verb

past tense of enlist

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Recent Examples of enlisted
Adjective
The enlisted oath also includes a promise to follow the lawful orders of the president and of the officers appointed above them. Samuel C. Mahaney, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2025 The money is supposed to help soldiers with food costs, but a Military.com investigation found that of the $225 million collected from enlisted soldiers’ BAS pay last year at 11 of the Army’s largest bases, $151 million was directed elsewhere. Brie Stimson, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2025 The move returns the Army base in North Carolina to being called Fort Bragg, but the name will now honor an enlisted Army soldier named Roland L. Bragg, who according to a Pentagon statement was awarded a Silver Star and the Purple Heart for combat during World War II. John Ismay, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025 She was raised in Crisfield and her sister, Marian Elzie Wilson, was also in the WACs as an enlisted member of 6888. Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enlisted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlisted
Adjective
  • The Palestinian militant group also abducted more than 250 hostages.
    Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Now, that was never actually true, and certainly on January 6th, when a lot of the members of these militant groups went to the Capitol and attacked police officers, injuring more than 100 of them, their love for law enforcement was not genuine.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike the mercenary group, the paramilitary Africa Corps is placed under the umbrella of the Russian defense ministry, according to the group’s official Telegram channel.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
  • More than 16,500 soldiers and 107,000 paramilitary personnel have been mobilized to help with the evacuation and to stand by for search and rescue, the government said in a statement.
    Reuters, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Ozzy’s father, Steve, was a great player at Boston College, inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2001 and a fourth-round pick playing five NFL seasons.
    Paul Dehner Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In 1978, Parton was named as the Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year, and she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Paycheck Protection Program was established in 2020 to help businesses keep their workforce employed during the coronavirus pandemic, and ended in May 2021.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Toma Sparks and Justin Jenkins are still employed by the Johnson City Police Department.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His warlike actions in Iran, despite campaign promises to the contrary, blatantly bypassed the need to gain approval from the legislative branch of government.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2025
  • The bottom line: Bipartisanship is the most obvious casualty of Schumer's new warlike posture toward the GOP.
    Hans Nichols, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • With 220 students enrolled, the school is at 174% of its capacity, Rice said.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The removal of application materials also has caused confusion around the recertification process for borrowers already enrolled in repayment plans, experts say.
    CORA LEWIS, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Manager Craig Counsell hired Quintin Berry and Jose Javier to be his base coaches for a reason.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Separately, the Health Department hired the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors to audit Perkins.
    Katie Mettler, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That person should start at the regular TSA security line.
    Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The government’s lawyers want the Supreme Court to make clear that regular pot smokers – and other drug users − shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Enlisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlisted. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.

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