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

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Here we look at how this new recruitment drive is playing out among Nato's 30 European member states, many of whom still have conscript armies.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

They also park their classic Jeep Wagoneer to conscript Wiig, via FaceTime, to write a “tear-to-your-eye, fun, uptempo, jazzy with a little country” theme song for their journey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

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

“I told him you are my brother. He said he will make sure nobody comes here to conscript you.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Around 800 people are in the first batch of conscripts.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

General Kundid promises a "very dynamic, very interesting" programme for the conscripts.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

Here, the Russian conscripts are either mean but brave or they just have rotten luck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

To convince them to serve, Kyiv offers 18- to 24-year-olds special one-year contracts, a sign-up bonus of $24,000 and monthly salaries of $2,800 -- much more than conscripts, aged 25 and over, get.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Aegon Dragonlord had perhaps a fifth that number, the chroniclers said, and most of those were conscripts from the ranks of the last king he had slain, their loyalties uncertain.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

"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

A full-size replica of a Spanish galleon stares out into Manila Bay, the centrepiece of a museum that will transport visitors back to the 17th century, when conscripted Philippine mariners hastened the era of globalisation.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

As a former career waiter, I say without hesitation that I would not want to go to war with a battalion of conscripted foodies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026

He had run away from Austria with his bride to avoid being conscripted into the army.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

Although that practice ended decades ago, the program continues to draw criticism for keeping intelligent animals in captivity and conscripting them into human war efforts.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

“If it has come to this, that you are conscripting somebody my age, then Biafra has died,” the elderly man said quietly.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie