tasked

Example Sentences

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Chinese destroyers sailing past those bases today could, in war, be tasked with striking and destroying them, said Koh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

Elias was tasked with figuring out how to squeeze batteries into small and unlikely places—including directly under Hamilton’s seat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

In November 2023, Trickett was tasked by Wai to arrange for high-profile Hong Kong activist Nathan Law to be followed when he was speaking at the Oxford Union student society.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

He met Sayre as a 20-year-old personal driver tasked with taking the attorney from Orange County to his firm’s offices in Santa Monica.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

It was the close of an era and the beginning of a brand-new one—and this updated force would be tasked with upholding a whole new federally dictated way of life called Prohibition.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler