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task

[task, tahsk] / tæsk, tɑsk /




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Multiple audits have flagged a lack of oversight, while a task force of federal prosecutors have brought at least three fraud cases over the use of funds intended to help the homeless.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

An association for private trade schools and career colleges is so concerned it has created a task force to reach out to students about the importance of loan repayment.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Guardiola's main task would be to secure qualification for Euro 2028, which will take place in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with the qualifiers in 2027.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

But after the shadowing process, he reassigned that task to its business-development team.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“And she was sent to Poland in late August 1939. To the US embassy in Warsaw. Her task was to help the embassy pack up, get the staff safely out of town before Hitler invaded.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

At one of Snabbit's training hubs in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru, workers rehearse tasks such as chopping vegetables against the clock.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

If the technology is commercialized, a single programmable optical chip could perform several tasks, including controlling signal speed and switching between different functions.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

At the booth for Suzhou-based UniX AI, a $44,000 robot completed household tasks, such as making the bed, putting laundry in the washing machine and doing the dishes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Instead, take a close look at your day-to-day responsibilities and identify the specific tasks that drain you.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

Inside the cottage three figures went about their tasks, but not one of them resembled Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Those ups and downs are not exclusive to his career in the ring, as in May 2017, a then 20-year-old Agyarko was tasked with a different fight.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Meanwhile, DRL’s remaining skeleton crew was tasked with removing trigger words from documents.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

“The person tasked with making the lightning lane reservations for a group is going to have a very different day,” said Jessica Gardner, an influencer known as “the theme parkette.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Department of Agriculture’s civilian workforce, according to the independent federal agency tasked with managing the civil service.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Nyame had tasked Anansi with capturing one of the Mmoatia to satisfy his price for the Story Box.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The U.S. military is using nonstandard contracts and tasking defense contractors to design new weapons from scratch to cut years of production time and hundreds of millions of dollars off their cost.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Manchester United confirmed Michael Carrick as interim manager until the end of the season on Tuesday, tasking him with leading the Red Devils back into the Champions League.

From Barron's Jan. 13, 2026

Google is acquiring Intersect’s workforce and gigawatts of active joint projects, while tasking the company with developing new technologies to expand the energy supply for U.S. data centers.

From MarketWatch Dec. 22, 2025

"They had to strip out all the medical equipment, and re-task it for a military tasking," says Cathal Berry, a former deputy commander of the Rangers Wing.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2025

So it is with any faculty you may select; the harder it is tasked the more worthy it becomes; and without tasking at all, it is worth nothing.

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William




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