drafted

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After playing college basketball at San Jose State and then Gonzaga, he was drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder and traded to the Grizzlies soon after.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

During a hearing on April 10, the trade court panel tried to parse what Congress meant in 1974 when it drafted the law to address “fundamental international payments problems” like “balance-of-payments deficits.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The so-called secondary draft, which was discontinued six years later, was specifically targeted toward winter high school graduates, junior college players, college dropouts and amateurs who had been previously drafted but did not sign.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Japan's pacifist constitution that followed had been drafted "with the resolve that we must never again wage war or kill people", she said.

From Barron's • May 3, 2026

Easter was just such a drifting holiday, so every few generations a monk was drafted to calculate the dates when Easter would fall for the next few hundred years.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife