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GI

[gee] / gi /
NOUN
government issue; soldier
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"Moving this work into a clinical trial is a landmark development for our GI cancer program at Sylvester," Datta said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

Joseph attended Harvard University on the GI bill and completed majors in math and physics in just three years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

That helps isolate the specific impacts of the GI Bill, the landmark 1944 law that effectively provided free college to millions of returning U.S. servicemen.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

The GI Bill and the industrial boom drove the greatest project of mass education and mass consumption in world history.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

“I’ve got a part-time job lined up in New York as soon as I’m discharged. With that and my GI Bill, I can go to school there.”

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

“It was lugged home in some GI’s duffel bag, without its case.”

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

Anyway, after the bomb was dropped, the GI's who worked at the laboratory came up and shook my hand and said, “You were the person who stuck the hand of the great Enrico Fermi.”

From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023

The aircraft chase the GI’s informal prayer as reliably as the violins tail the piano in Chanda Dancy’s treacly score.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022

A GI’s fiancee resents his marriage of convenience to a buddy’s English girlfriend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

Once in a while the GI's would get binoculars on them but they couldn't see any more details.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

In theory, the law was “colorblind,” offering the same educational support to Black GIs as to white GIs.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

"The soldiers who once called each other Redcoats and Yankees became the Tommies and the GIs who together saved the free world," he said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

American GIs brought swing records, Lucky Strike cigarettes and the Sears Roebuck mail-order catalog to Inuit residents who embraced the possibilities of 20th-century life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

As we know, many children of Vietnamese women and American GIs did not get evacuated, and they were not killed by the victors.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2025

I watched him wade through a sea of GIs, stopping now and again to talk to one of them.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers




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