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The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
He’s on a draftable trajectory right now, as long as the medicals are OK.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022
Now nearly every draftable player does some form of combine training.
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022
That weekend, Prescott was little more than a consolation prize, and there were even members of the Cowboys’ front office who didn’t even view Prescott as a draftable player then.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021
Thus it may happen that, by reason of bodily or mental infirmity, a father, with a family of helpless children, may be totally dependent upon the exertions of the mother and a draftable son.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various
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