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conscript
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    The old Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is there with Thufir Hawat beside him and seven ships jammed with every conscript he could muster.†  (source)
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    With those words he'd conscripted himself to banishment.†  (source)
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    America scraping the bottom of the conscription barrel?†  (source)
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    He had joined the Iraqi army, hardly surprising in a land of mass conscription, and had fought in the long war against Iranians, though he referred to them always as Persians and rafida.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. When a word ends in "me", a "p" is often added as in assume to assumption, consume to consumption and resume to resumption.
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    That same month, American forces turned on Saipan's neighboring isle, Tinian, where the Japanese held five thousand Koreans, conscripted as laborers.†  (source)
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    Aegon Dragonlord had perhaps a fifth that number, the chroniclers said, and most of those were conscripts from the ranks of the last king he had slain, their loyalties uncertain.†  (source)
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    In an industrial state or a conscript army, if you get control of the paperwork you can do anything.†  (source)
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    Is the glorious People's Army now conscripting egrets for its assault troops?†  (source)
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    There will be more conscriptions, more laws, more labor camps.†  (source)
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    It was several days before I perceived that most of these "girls" were young men in hiding from the forced-labor conscription, which had grown more ruthless than ever.†  (source)
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    The two young men met the Count's gaze with looks of embarrassment, having clearly been conscripted into some duty they found distasteful.†  (source)
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    There were few left in the mess now of the batch of volunteers who trained together at the outbreak of war; one way and another they were nearly all gone some had been invalided out, some promoted to other battalions, some posted to staff jobs, some had volunteered for special service, one had got himself killed on the field firing range, one had been court-martialed—and their places were taken by conscripts; the wireless played incessantly in the ante-room nowadays, and much beer was drunk before dinner; it was not as it had been.†  (source)
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    Conscript armies have been tried in the past.†  (source)
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