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task

[task, tahsk] / tæsk, tɑsk /




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Yes, we have about 35 task forces statewide working on this issue and sometimes they run joint operations.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 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

Miyamoto has a similar humble but thankless task she’d want help with.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

The stated task is to vet contractors’ operations, invest in production lines and more quickly expand the U.S. military arsenal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

His task is to blast the solid rock into pieces small enough for his crew to dig loose with hand tools and haul away in ox carts.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

Initially, the prototype could follow simple voice commands to execute tasks across apps, including ordering food and comparing shopping prices.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

But even if the Chinese models are slightly inferior, they are good enough for many tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Sometimes he would give her menial tasks to do: answer the phone, show someone to a meeting room, or announce a guest.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Yet from time to time Arawn sends certain of them outside Annuvin to perform his most ruthless tasks.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

Bisignano was tasked with tackling complex back-office problems as JPMorgan looked to integrate the multiple companies it had acquired in a short number of years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Operating under a charter signed in 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln, the prestigious Academies are independent nonprofit institutions tasked with advising the government on scientific policy.

From Barron's Jul. 16, 2026

It’s the assistant who speaks, ultimately, tasked with the job via unspoken prodding from her boss.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

It’s incurious about its stomping creatures and barely invested in the humans either, tasking Johansson and most of the cast to play fairly similar shades of hardy and determined.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2025

The more holidays the better; it will give the boys an opportunity of feeding themselves at their own expence, and, by tasking them well, you will prevent the complaints of their parents.

From The Academy Keeper Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation, Discipline, and Instruction of Young Gentlemen. With the Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions by Anonymous




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