enlist
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This included BTS members, who were at the height of their fame in 2022 when they started taking career breaks to enlist in the military.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ideally, an aging parent will enlist an estate-planning attorney to set up a marital trust and appoint a reliable trustee to carry out their wishes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
It would allow parties to enlist the help of wealthy donors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Bird enthusiast and Sevidov's best friend, Vyacheslav Kaistro, did enlist.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Somebody said newspaper reporters with cameras would be at the sign up recruiting office to snap a picture of the first boy young man from our area to sign up to be a soldier enlist.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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When Perla rejects Ulises’ practiced advances, he enlists the aid of her put-upon niece, who longs to escape both her demanding aunt and the decaying mansion that entraps her.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
As the Court Poet, baritone Brian Major enlists the Stranger into the storytelling—their eerie duet as the voice of the evil fairy Carabosse is a striking musical moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
This is important because the government enlists businesses during war and peacetime for assistance, including with immigration enforcement, cyber-security and critical mineral mining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
But Vahid is not certain he has the right man, so he enlists a group of other victims to help identify him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
In that picture Claude Barron enlists in the Foreign Legion because Rita Carrol marries another guy.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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To play the wily Kanbei, Kurosawa enlisted his young “Cloud” star Suda, whom he calls a genius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"We have also enlisted air support from a helicopter, which is firefighting from the air, dropping water onto the fire, which is really positively impacting this incident," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Soldier Girls” draws on four years of reporting to create one of the finest portraits of life in America’s enlisted ranks after Sept. 11, 2001.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
They traveled to Zurich, Switzerland, where they enlisted Dignitas, a Swiss nonprofit, to help Brian achieve a painless death.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Many of our “symptoms” of disease actually represent ways in which some damned clever microbe modifies our bodies or our behavior such that we become enlisted to spread microbes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Actually, it’s Stuart from an alternative universe enlisting him to restore things with the help of a malfunctioned quantum interference device created by Sheldon, Leonard and Howard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Several Manhattan private-school parents said another key to getting extra time—and unlimited bathroom breaks—is enlisting a gastroenterologist to diagnose inflammatory bowel disease or irritable bowel syndrome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
But when Imagine Dragons "just blew up" while they were at university, Dan, a fan of "Starcraft" and "League of Legends", went with the flow, enlisting Mac along the way as manager.
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
They’re enlisting agents to code, manage their calendar and respond to emails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Most African Americans who fought in the Revolution and won their freedom by enlisting were from Northern states.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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