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GI

[gee] / gi /
NOUN
government issue; soldier
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Those with sensitive gastrointestinal systems should consult a doctor as it could cause gas, bloating and other GI discomfort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

"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

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

A growing population, the GI Bill, increased enrollment of women and minority students, the clear financial returns of four-year degrees and federal student loans all helped swell college enrollment and the American economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

My other best buddy—who coincidentally had the same first name, but let’s call him Tommy—lived on the other side of the woods in a pleasant working-class neighborhood made possible by the GI Bill.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

“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

We're the only Army GI's in this outfit and this is pretty plush.

From Sonny by Rick Raphael

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

D’Aquino’s defense: She had been slyly subverting the propaganda machine the whole time, entertaining Americans with facetious language no one could take seriously and introducing upbeat American music the GIs actually loved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 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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