conscript
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He insists his father was a forced conscript and did not support the Nazis.
From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026
The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, will make it easier to identify every conscript in the country.
From Seattle Times • May 18, 2024
Tired as Illia is, the idea of fighting alongside a petrified conscript in a trench is not an appealing one.
From BBC • May 6, 2024
He had not handled a gun since he was a teenage conscript in Hitler’s Wehrmacht at the end of World War II.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2023
Azareen, fierce and stoic as she was, had one of the prettiest tattoos Sarai had seen—done by Guldan, of course, who was now a conscript in Minya’s wretched army.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing conscript
The American Civil War
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Ender's Game
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