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GI

[gee] / gi /
NOUN
government issue; soldier
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The researchers noted that "geographical regions influence the risk of GI cancers," suggesting that regional differences should be considered when making dietary recommendations.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 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

She has no diabetes, no prior GI history—but she also has a body she doesn’t love after bringing two kids into the world.

From Slate Mar. 22, 2026

I had read some stuff in Stars and Stripes about Congress expanding the GI Bill.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

“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

After all, thousands of GI's had probably been discharged with a duffel bag full of "liberated" Very pistols and flares.

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 German bases were the largest peacetime foreign deployment of American troops abroad, said Thomas Maulucci, history professor at the University of Connecticut who co-edited a book about American GIs in Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 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

None of the women went by “Tokyo Rose” — it was a composite, a nickname used by GIs who never knew how many there were.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

They even had GIs tending to flowers around some of the barracks and some doing the same kinds of details they would have been doing back in Devens or any stateside base.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers




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