conscripted

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With able-bodied German men conscripted to fight in the war, workers from the lands the Nazis occupied were drafted to meet the labor shortage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 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

In the four years that have followed, as the war has ground on and the initial patriotic fervour has died down, thousands more have been conscripted.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Large conscripted armies were a feature of Nato states during the Cold War but they dwindled in size after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

“Those outside who are being conscripted, they are God’s children too.”

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