enlisted

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The backroom staff has been beefed up, with Sarah Taylor enlisted to sort the fielding and Troy Cooley adding support to the fast bowlers.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

And seven decades earlier, Hearts missed out on the 1915 championship, because 13 of its players abruptly left the team: They had enlisted in the Royal Scots battalion to go fight in the Great War.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

He also enlisted the help of party heavyweights Harriet Harman and former prime minister Gordon Brown.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

As reporters Kat Lonsdorf and Tom Bowman noted, those numbers are “a drop in the bucket” compared to the more than 1.3 million people enlisted.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

“Colonel Cathcart gave up the idea himself once he realized enlisted men pray to the same God as officers.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller