tasking

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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

The UK is understood to be considering tasking British troops with this when the aid corridor opens next month.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2024

It carries us into the depths of our own nature, and I can say nothing about it worth saying, without tasking your powers of attention, without demanding some mental toil.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William