conscription

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Boiko, 23 years old and below the age for conscription, said he often felt depressed in Kyiv because of the blackouts and blamed himself for not wanting to socialize with friends.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Since the State of Israel was declared in 1948, students enrolled full-time at a religious school, or yeshiva, have been exempted from conscription.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

The remaining option, she adds, are men under the conscription age of 25.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

The court did not set a deadline for the adoption of a conscription law, but only for a debate on the issue in parliament.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson