task
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Tesla’s next task is to prove those sales will generate enough cash to fund its AI ambitions, and that the money it spends on them will reward shareholders.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Bringing in an experienced operator like Kreiz sent a signal that he knows the huge task ahead of him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Skydance faces a tough task achieving its goals against a tough media and entertainment industry backdrop.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
While traditional industrial robots are designed to repeat a specific task and need to be reprogrammed to do something different, RobCo says Alfie’s embedded AI allows it to adapt to new tasks on its own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
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Manus is an agent tool that can carry out real-world tasks for users -- currently a hot sector in global tech, with AI labs racing to release personal assistants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
But Hamilton and her team had planned for such an error by engineering "priority-driven software" to shut down any background tasks and favour the most important - the Moon landing - according to MIT.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
For example, if a patient was unable to attend an appointment, a navigator could notify the doctor, arrange a new appointment, or handle administrative tasks that might otherwise fall to clinical staff.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
One of the first tasks is gaining a precise understanding of the herd’s population size and birth trends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
One of the tasks he had to oversee, in 1710, was the move away from the cramped quarters at Gresham College to larger premises at Crane Court.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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Once the fire was extinguished, Lineage was tasked with removing the 89 million pounds of meat and food stored inside as fast as possible before it spoiled in the scorching summer heat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
ORR is the Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency traditionally tasked with the care of unaccompanied minor migrants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The people tasked with the job of finding a usable vein and securing an IV are not phlebotomists with specialized training or nurses.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
He tasked Hocherman with developing a U.S.-made luxury game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
It was said they were brethren and sistren, each tasked to watch over a particular piece of the world—the skies, seas, jungles, deserts, mountains, and realm of the dead.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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It said it plans to submit a bill "as soon as possible," while tasking an expert group with drawing up permanent regulations on the issue.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
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 of production time and hundreds of millions of dollars off their cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
The new material revealed MI5 had greater and earlier knowledge of Stakeknife than detectives had previously been told, including that MI5 had been involved in tasking him.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
The Trumpeter bravely has blown his way Through much that his patience was tasking; And the publisher also his joy doth betray: For the author's likeness he's asking.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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