voluntarily
Example Sentences
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After two years, he voluntarily paused his graduate studies to be drafted by the Army.
Officials are not re-introducing mandatory military service but have warned they may do so if they do not get enough people signing up voluntarily.
From Barron's
Kast seems to hope his rhetoric will encourage irregular migrants to leave voluntarily.
From BBC
Within a few years, he was appointed Founding Director of the Division of Molecular Psychiatry at Yale, a role made possible when the sitting Director, Dr. George Heninger, voluntarily stepped aside.
From Science Daily
Britain and the U.S. proved themselves particularly adept at coordinating allies, not least because London yielded leadership to Washington voluntarily.
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