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Recent Examples of enlisted
John Ismay, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
She was raised in Crisfield and her sister, Marian Elzie Wilson, was also in the WACs as an enlisted member of 6888.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025
In 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée marched on Moscow with enlisted soldiers from at least nine different nationalities, with French soldiers in the minority.
—Jason Lyall, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2022
In the military, officers and senior enlisted men often serve above their permanent rank.
—Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2024
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The move returns the Army base in North Carolina to being called Fort Bragg, but the name will now honor an enlisted Army soldier named Roland L. Bragg, who according to a Pentagon statement was awarded a Silver Star and the Purple Heart for combat during World War II.
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Saturday's summit comes two months after Israel ended a ceasefire reached with the Hamas militant group in January.—
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Israel blames civilian casualties on Hamas because the militant group operates from civilian areas.—
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In 2018, the paramilitary People's Armed Police used dynamite and excavators to demolish a church in Linfen, Shanxi province, that served a congregation of 50,000.—
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The strikes, launched by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for the third day, attacked a terminal at the city's airport overnight on Tuesday.—
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Ozzy’s father, Steve, was a great player at Boston College, inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2001 and a fourth-round pick playing five NFL seasons.—
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In 1978, Parton was named as the Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year, and she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.—
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The Paycheck Protection Program was established in 2020 to help businesses keep their workforce employed during the coronavirus pandemic, and ended in May 2021.—
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Toma Sparks and Justin Jenkins are still employed by the Johnson City Police Department.—
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The bottom line: Bipartisanship is the most obvious casualty of Schumer's new warlike posture toward the GOP.—
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Freyja, however, is a more warlike goddess, and even has a part in selecting warriors for her hall in the afterlife.—
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In the Kansas 3rd District, which includes southern Wyandotte County, Johnson County and areas southwest of the metro, 53,000 people are enrolled, or 7% of the population.—
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Offering freedom Some 165,000 residents in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District, which includes much of Kansas City and Jackson County, are enrolled – about 22% of residents, according to the health policy research organization KFF.—
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But Grayson was still hired after a former Sangamon County deputy gave him a good recommendation.—
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Kennedy has hired David Geier, a man who has repeatedly claimed a link between vaccines and autism, to lead the autism research effort.—
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Both the long and regular size women's 30 bags are on sale.—
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This time, there’s the weight of expectations for Journalism, again ridden by regular jockey Umberto Rispoli, with the pressure on.—
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“Enlisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlisted. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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