enlisted

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Met Gala chair Anna Wintour has enlisted Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams to serve as the evening's co-chairs this year.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

My dad was enlisted in the Army and served for 20 years, and then was an IT administrator after the military.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

Detectives enlisted help from a California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist to review the video, and they agreed it was clearly a human in a bear suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

Its recruits included Khamenei himself, who was a teenager when he enlisted toward the end of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

It was almost lunchtime, and the earliest arrivals were drifting into the headquarters mess halls, the enlisted men and officers separating into different dining halls on facing sides of the archaic rotunda.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller