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[task, tahsk] / tæsk, tɑsk /




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Then the school district took on the task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The change request instructs servicers to complete the task within 15 to 45 days, the suit alleges, and yet borrowers are still seeing the debt appear on their credit reports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The hack was carried out by an AI agent - an autonomous computer program that uses AI to complete a task with minimal human oversight.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

During the task, the researchers temporarily silenced either V1 or LM and watched how the remaining region behaved without its usual partner.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

And I had one last task to fulfill.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Dallas Fed researchers made their measures with a database of jobs and their associated tasks, and records of the tasks that Anthropic’s Claude can perform.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

During a wide-ranging conversation on technology and trust, Smith said AI can free people from “repetitive chores or tasks that may feel a little bit like drudgery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The company plans to add an AI agent called Muse to its smart glasses which users can use to book appointments, find flights and do other tasks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Muse is meant as something different: a robot that performs tasks for you across the internet.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

The tasks are clear, like lift your arm or take a photograph with your third rear left-side camera or turn your wheels to the right.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

She submitted complaints about the issue, according to the suit, to the Better Business Bureau, her congressperson and the FSA’s ombudsman’s office, which is tasked with handling borrower complaints.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The job site’s research has found that for hourly employees tasked with maintenance and installation work, data centers offer a roughly 42% pay premium compared with similar jobs at other kinds of businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Since then, Doustdar has been tasked with rebuilding the company — which he is doing, in fits and starts.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

At the time of his appointment in December 2024, Sir Keir said Lord Wormald would be tasked with "the complete re-wiring of the British state to deliver bold and ambitious long-term reform".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Slopper was tasked with putting that together, and he thrived under the responsibility.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

The “Ted Lasso” writers aren’t entirely unaware of the most obvious concerns that come with tasking Ted with wrangling a team of disparate female personalities.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

The U.S. military is using nonstandard contracts and tasking defense contractors to design new weapons from scratch to cut years off production times 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

And these "vital" themes awake our prejudices at the cost of a minimum—if not always, as when Miss Corelli guides us, with a positively negligible— tasking of our mental faculties.

From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell




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