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GI

[gee] / gi /
NOUN
government issue; soldier
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That helps isolate the specific impacts of the GI Bill, the landmark 1944 law that effectively provided free college to millions of returning U.S. servicemen.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

I log in to GI, a deck called “How Boundaries Build Safety.”

From Slate May 10, 2026

In an under-reported story, the GI Rights hotline, which helps service members understand their rights to discharge and responds to other concerns, has seen a large increase in calls.

From Salon May 3, 2026

The researchers believe these two functions help shield the GI tract from infection.

From Science Daily Mar. 16, 2026

“I’ve got a part-time job lined up in New York as soon as I’m discharged. With that and my GI Bill, I can go to school there.”

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

“It was lugged home in some GI’s duffel bag, without its case.”

From Slate Mar. 16, 2024

Anyway, after the bomb was dropped, the GI's who worked at the laboratory came up and shook my hand and said, “You were the person who stuck the hand of the great Enrico Fermi.”

From Scientific American Jul. 27, 2023

“I am not suggesting for any moment that I know,” of the GI’s location, Gen. Harrison said Monday.

From Washington Times Jul. 24, 2023

The aircraft chase the GI’s informal prayer as reliably as the violins tail the piano in Chanda Dancy’s treacly score.

From Washington Post Nov. 21, 2022

If the GI's step in, that will have to stop—which means we'll show a loss heavy enough to put us out.

From A Spaceship Named McGuire by Randall Garrett

In theory, the law was “colorblind,” offering the same educational support to Black GIs as to white GIs.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

"The soldiers who once called each other Redcoats and Yankees became the Tommies and the GIs who together saved the free world," he said.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

American GIs brought swing records, Lucky Strike cigarettes and the Sears Roebuck mail-order catalog to Inuit residents who embraced the possibilities of 20th-century life.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 24, 2026

D’Aquino’s defense: She had been slyly subverting the propaganda machine the whole time, entertaining Americans with facetious language no one could take seriously and introducing upbeat American music the GIs actually loved.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

I watched him wade through a sea of GIs, stopping now and again to talk to one of them.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers




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