conscript

Trudging through snow, a young Finnish conscript carefully draws a thin blue wire between two pine trees.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, will make it easier to identify every conscript in the country.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024

The regime later said it did not plan to include women in the conscript pool "at present" but did not specify what that meant.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024

He had not handled a gun since he was a teenage conscript in Hitler’s Wehrmacht at the end of World War II.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

Azareen, fierce and stoic as she was, had one of the prettiest tattoos Sarai had seen—done by Guldan, of course, who was now a conscript in Minya’s wretched army.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

It is debating lifting the prohibition on conscripts serving outside Sweden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The conscripts then do up to 15 months compulsory training before going back into civilian life, in employment or higher education.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The dumb conscripts are given instant gratification and money.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

They serve in a unique militia system in which army conscripts do at least four months' service before being called up repeatedly over a decade for weeks-long refresher sessions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

One has said he was conscripted at 17 and served in a reconnaissance unit.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

But as we round the first corner, almost all of the exhibits are the work of amateurs, conscripted from civilian life and professionalized into name, rank and number.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

His grandfather had fled their village in 1948 to avoid being conscripted in the civil war that was upending millions of lives.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

"Then I heard they're not just present but one of the playable protagonists? And not even special forces, handled from the perspective of an ordinary conscripted soldier, that's what gets me."

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

I thank God that Papa was too old to be conscripted into the army.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

As a Christian minister of an American Baptist congregation, I’ve spent more than 20 years in a pulpit — long enough to know the difference between protecting a church and conscripting one.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Temporary arrangements to continue it were formally ended by the court last year, forcing the government to begin conscripting the community.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

On November 19, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the government was required to present an effective proposal for conscripting the ultra-Orthodox.

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

The government is conscripting people to live on Martian colonies.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

“But the army is conscripting all our young men.”

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh