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[task, tahsk] / tæsk, tɑsk /




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Wars make the former task easier but complicate the latter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Sawitskas has recruited a pair of co-workers, Troy Leverton and Pim Renting, who work in various aspects of ride engineering, to help in the task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

This is the problem with imagining hospitality as another task that can be optimized.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Vaccarello began the difficult task of replacing France's Hedi Slimane at Saint Laurent in 2016, taking several seasons to identify a fresh look for the brand while also respecting its illustrious heritage.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

My whole body relaxes as I turn to the task at hand.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

According to Meta’s benchmark data, the flagship Muse Wonder Full beats out top OpenAI and Anthropic models on memory retention, financial analysis and long-horizon coding tasks — though rival models maintain advantages in other areas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

The optimistic version of AI-assisted service makes some sense: Let the machine handle routine tasks.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

It's what makes the creative process different from more functional, practical tasks, he thinks.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Military officials and analysts said the outposts were mainly being used for routine security tasks and were tactical rather than permanent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Moreover, the new agricultural tasks demanded so much time that people were forced to settle permanently next to their wheat fields.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Seaver and his security company were subsequently served with a termination notice directing them to immediately vacate the Parton properties they had been tasked with protecting.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

At its headquarters in the West Midlands of the U.K., designers were tasked with conjuring up a sleek silhouette that engineers had to transform into a viable machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

He has been tasked with reorienting the team, moving away from its conservative defensive-first approach to an aggressive attacking style, with defensemen often joining the rush.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The three players on the flank were tasked with creating chances which they did via good movement to lose markers.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Seybert had left money in his will to fund a commission made up of ten University of Pennsylvania faculty tasked with proving the truth of Spiritualism.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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 off production times and hundreds of millions of dollars off their cost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

We will give it entire, though perhaps it is tasking the reader's sympathy too much.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt




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