ENLISTED Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

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as in militant

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verb

past tense of enlist

as in inducted

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Officers and enlisted men grouped around nearest radios. — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026 Van Dyke joined the Army in 2008 and, in 2023, was promoted to the rank of master sergeant, the second-highest enlisted rank in the Army, according to the indictment. — Hallie Golden, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026 Darren Heller, the AFCENT Battle Lab senior enlisted leader. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025 Most boards consider hundreds, if not thousands, of officers for promotion, and senior enlisted troops also come before similar boards. — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enlisted

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That 2023 event saw Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups kill 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals and abduct 251 people.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026
In early September, 1972, a Palestinian militant group called Black September infiltrated the Olympic Games in Munich and killed eleven Israeli athletes.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of militant

Verb

By the time of her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honors, Parton was already a longtime member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, which inducted her in 1999.

— Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2026
Eminem shared a screenshot of a letter the late singer penned him after he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of inducted

Verb

At a science standards adoption in Texas in 2021, an oil and gas industry group recruited volunteers to participate in the process.

— Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Tottenham have recruited six players, all of whom played in the Premier League last season.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of recruited

Adjective

Beyond giving Russia a foothold and a warm-water port, these bases were also vital for sustaining and resupplying its military and paramilitary operations in Africa.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Five paramilitary soldiers were killed and six civilians were wounded, including a 10-year-old boy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of paramilitary

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Students’ ability to play sports hinges on being enrolled, which might not be possible for the fall semester as the calendar turns to the second half of September and beyond.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Harry and Meghan are returning to the UK very soon, with their children enrolled in British schools, which begin their new years in September.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of enrolled

Adjective

Macron says fires are warlike crisis for France Out-of-control wildfires represent France’s greatest crisis since World War II, President Emmanuel Macron said.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026

Definition of warlike

Verb

The rare, firsthand accounts show the perils faced by tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted into the war by all sides.

— Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
After Taylor left the band in 1974, the Stones conscripted Ron Wood, formerly of the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026

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