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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)
  • Since most of the mailmen have been conscripted, letters and packages are piling up in the warehouses.†  (source)
  • America scraping the bottom of the conscription barrel?†  (source)
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  • On one page she saw a list of headings: exchange controls, rationing, the mass evacuation of large towns, the conscription of labor.†  (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.
  • Yes, the Illuminati had killed people, but individuals, carefully conscripted targets.†  (source)
    conscripted = drafted (forced by law) into military service
  • Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.†  (source)
  • "I've sent a conscript release for your brothers and your friend, and an officer to your house, to tell your parents where you are," Cal continues, thinking this might calm me.†  (source)
  • Is the glorious People's Army now conscripting egrets for its assault troops?†  (source)
    conscripting = drafting (forcing by law) into military service
  • There will be more conscriptions, more laws, more labor camps.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • At the same time, in Narewka and many other villages throughout Poland, men were conscripted for forced labor.†  (source)
    conscripted = drafted (forced by law) into military service
  • 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)
  • 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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