enlist
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The details are few, but human capital is an enduring advantage for free societies, and fixing military recruitment means more than signing up enough 18-year-olds to enlist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
And since things take a turn for the medical, Duffy’s oldest daughter, Evita, and her husband, Wisconsin Republican congressional candidate Michael Alfonso, enlist an ultrasound tech to reveal their unborn child’s gender.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Sometimes the founders fly in to host, while other times they enlist what they called a small “boots on the ground” team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
If you enlist AI for financial advice, you’ll certainly get it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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The actor plays a master thief who enlists the help of his children—who didn’t even know he existed—to whisk Da Vinci’s masterpiece out of the Louvre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
This series sequel enlists Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh to play rough in this dystopia, with Schafer as Cora, a human Blade Runner who teams with Yeoh’s Olwen, a fading replicant.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
And you might have seen him as himself this year in the third season of Lisa Kudrow’s “The Comeback,” as the man she enlists to save a television pilot from hacky AI jokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 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
When he enlists the audience’s help, he actually enlists the audience’s help.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Jo enlisted the help of not only local crafters for the event, but local businesses who gifted attendees treats for the late night.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
The casting introduces its own familiar comic premise: the polished gay man enlisted to introduce his less domestically accomplished counterparts to the finer points of everyday living.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
A year later the business enlisted a fourth partner, who invested $10,000 and brought industry experience and organizational talent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The complaint also said Mattie Music Group enlisted the help of musicologist Alexander Stewart to determine “substantial” similarities between the two songs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Paul Jennings spent his earliest years doing small chores—“a boy under his mother’s feet in the big house enlisted as errand runner.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Pillinger, originally from Kingswood near Bristol, became a familiar face in the 1990s as he sought public support and funding for the ambitious mission, enlisting celebrities and pop stars to help promote it.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Airlines are installing deluxe seats, enlisting Michelin-star chefs for luxury menu offerings and designing elite airport lounges as the industry bets its future on growing demand for premium travel.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Add another pot or two, increase the quantities and consider enlisting contributions from friends.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Countering that trend are young people who have spent the past three years doing the opposite: enlisting in the military, marrying and building lives in a country at war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“You’ve been putting off enlisting in something for only one reason,” he said at once.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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