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unrecruited

  • a word derived from recruit.
    recruit
    noun
    a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.

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He was undersized and largely unrecruited out of Davis High in Yakima, Wash., where basketball was traditionally a bigger deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2025

As a teenage football star, he went unrecruited from his Dothan, Ala., high school.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023

“It was a combination of things,” Dumas says now, when asked to explain why Kupp went so unrecruited out of high school.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2016

Edelman is generously listed at 5 feet 10 inches, and that was the main reason he was largely unrecruited out of high school and junior college.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2015

The Chinese garrison, ill-paid and unrecruited, gradually lost the semblance of a military force, and was not to be distinguished from the rest of the civil population.

From China by Demetrius Charles Boulger