volunteer
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The country's volunteer firefighters had around $320,000 deposited in the bank.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
After her diagnosis, Laura began to volunteer with the perinatal mental health team "as a way to give back" to the NHS, which she said had carried her through "the lowest time of her life".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
During a recent cleanup around Western Avenue and 3rd Street, volunteers passed at least three overflowing cans with litter piled around them, said volunteer Tam Phan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Germany runs a network of volunteer units; more than 1.7 million people are registered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Truth is, even though we’re in the same grade, I only know Jayden through the tutoring program at the rec center where Quinton used to volunteer.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Today, the group has more than 130,000 members and has proven an electoral force, with legions of volunteers helping elect candidates nationwide to state and local office.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Addressing residents, staff and volunteers in Spanish, Leo said disabled people were "not a burden on society" but "a blessing."
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
A team of volunteers helped to lower the aircraft cabin into position at his home in Hilton in Derbyshire.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
The first volunteers gathered in the back house of Nithya Raman’s Silver Lake home with little besides a whiteboard counting down the number of days until the June 2 primary election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
Before the reactor could melt down and explode, volunteers crawled into the reactor compartment and welded together a backup cooling system.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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He then volunteered to take part in the study but, like all the other participants, he still doesn't know whether he was given the experimental vaccine or a placebo alongside his immunotherapy treatment.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
"One of them showed symptoms seven days after arriving and was admitted to the Ebola treatment centre," said Bakikula, who volunteered to work at the facility after surviving Ebola herself.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Gehlen, who was sponsored by the Americans, volunteered a trove of intelligence on the Soviet Union amassed under the Nazis and went on to recruit members of the SS and the Gestapo who evaded denazification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Way back in the Bush II and Obama years, I volunteered at my college radio station in the Music Procurement Department or whatever it was called.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
She had once volunteered to me that her grandson wanted to be a lawyer and that she was hoping he would.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Goher Rahbour, a British surgeon volunteering at the Hospital, told AFP that Palestinian doctor Rizeq Abu Sheikh, with whom he had conducted a surgery Wednesday evening, was among those killed in the strike Thursday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
At a polling station in Raanana, a city in central Israel, Abir Yaakov Shulman, 16, wore a Likud T-shirt and was volunteering for Netanyahu’s party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
To all the moms and dads volunteering, you’re the unsung heroes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
She took some classes, traveled with friends and eventually began volunteering.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
But with no eyewitnesses who could place him with Booth, and him not volunteering anything, he was eventually released, as was Captain Cox.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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