RECRUITED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

recruited

verb

past tense of recruit

as in hired

to provide with a paying job thousands of recent immigrants were recruited to build the nation's rail system

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Recent Examples of recruited With the Mavericks, there is a coach, in Dusty May, who at one time recruited him collegiately, and a team willing to grow with their young players. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026 Lee recruited a friend to help move the box to her bedroom, but the setup itself took less than 10 minutes. — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026 Nearly every major college program recruited him, with Georgia coach Mark Richt pursuing him heavily. — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026 The filmmakers learned about the story while visiting their friend Crawford Hunt, who had been recruited to teach history at the school. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026 The Atlanta rapper just announced Fresh—the follow-up to his 2025 studio effort Wham and subsequent mixtape The Leaks—and has recruited frequent collaborators Future and Young Thug for features, alongside Rylo Rodriguez, Bally Baby, and Fatt Smaxx. — Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026 For Cambridge graduates of that era, employment was hardly a question, because companies recruited on campus. — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 This reboot, directed by Kitao Sakurai and starring Noah Centineo and Andrew Koji, takes place in 1993 as two estranged fighters are recruited to enter a tournament that forces them to face off against each other. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 The dispute also concerns how OpenAI recruited former Apple employees for its consumer hardware and robotics teams. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026

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Jennifer Shuford, who had been Texas’s health commissioner, was part of a team hired to restore confidence in the agency.

— Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Prosecutors said evidence presented in Hubbs’ trial established that Hubbs had been hired by someone else to break into the home and set it on fire.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026

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But the very reticence my father employed to protect us had hollowed out our family.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Gonska pushed back on that assertion, saying the political strategy employed by Bass during the June 2 primary was different from the activities now being conducted by Building LA in the runoff.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

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