Thesaurus results for TASKS

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noun

plural of task

as in duties

a piece of work that needs to be done regularly one of my tasks in the morning is to make lunches for everyone in the family

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as in roles

the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists the forklift's task is to stack pallets of goods in the warehouse

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tasks

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verb

present tense third-person singular of task

as in entrusts

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to I have been tasked by the host with bringing the pies for Thanksgiving this year

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Recent Examples of tasks

Noun

Turn off alerts for a short block and write down priorities, since concrete habits calm anxiety when tasks grow fuzzy. — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2026 As artificial intelligence revolutionizes how tasks are completed, many people are pleading their cases for why their jobs are important. — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026 Bad actors used to hastily scrap together basic scripts – instructions for automating tasks – to achieve their goals, according to Meyers. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026 Tan himself reports a 400x productivity increase, advising individuals to use agents for recurring tasks. — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026 Music students, for instance, are discovering tools that can easily do tasks such as editing or generating drum tracks. — ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026 The Pisces Moon in your 6th House of Work and Wellness opposes Venus in your private 12th house, so fatigue, resentment, or unspoken expectations could leak into daily tasks. — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2026 Low-Earth orbit operations will likely favor agile, highly maneuverable vehicles capable of complex rendezvous and stabilization tasks. — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, occupations such as IT and engineering, where AI enhances the value of experience by taking over routine tasks, are among the few that have held up since last summer. — Irina Anghel, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026

Verb

Nonetheless, the order tasks Kennedy with coming up with options to make separate shots available. — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026 Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, the movie stars Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who tasks a basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) with making her a wicker husband (Skarsgård). — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 July 2026 Odysseus tasks a young soldier named Sinon—a character who does not appear in the poem—with offering the horse to the Trojans. — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 26 July 2026 The companies at the forefront of AI know which tasks their systems are likely to absorb. — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026 The Three Peaks Challenge tasks participants with climbing the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales within 24 hours, and Princess Kate completed the trek after setting out on Saturday evening. — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026 Team JavaJuice is a team organized for FIRST Tech Challenge, a program that tasks students and their mentors with a hands-on engineering challenge of building and programming competitive, classroom-scale robots for a game that is released annually in September. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 24 June 2026 Hence the brand tasks perfumers to encapsulate mundane episodes in bottles. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 June 2026 The preamble to the Illinois Constitution tasks the state with some specific objectives — like eliminating poverty and inequality and ensuring legal, social and economic justice. — Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tasks

Noun

The allegations are unrelated to her duties with the Mount Vernon Police Department and do not stem from any conduct associated with the Department or the performance of her official responsibilities.

— Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
The possibility of the two splitting duties — Olsen being the primary field goal kicker with Weinberg handling kickoffs and longer field goals — is an option for Miami.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of duties

Verb

These responsibilities are the reason society entrusts lawyers with responsibilities unlike those of any other profession.

— Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
And Curry entrusts his considerable talent to Kerr, who can look at his star point guard and just about diagnose his disposition.

— Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 10 May 2026

Definition of entrusts

Noun

The 10-month experience includes monthly 3-hour sessions along with coaching, intersession assignments, personal assessments , accountability partner meetings, and other work.

— Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Investigators later determined the pilot had previously been involved in prior drug smuggling assignments.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of assignments

Noun

If approved, the legislation would extend exemptions to class cars built between 1976 and 1985 that are used primarily for exhibition purposes and have limited use on public roadways.

— Darrielle Fair, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
Warner said Idaho Public Archaeology, which has had around 400 volunteers and 5,000 visitors to various projects over the years, serves multiple purposes.

— Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of purposes

Verb

Look for meetings that exist only because no one trusts the system.

— Ishraq Khan, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Even when Corsini occasionally trusts his audience a little too much, breezing past visual clues that are easy to miss while lingering too long on a second-act monologue about the purpose of art, that confidence is largely earned.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 July 2026

Definition of trusts

Noun

The Republican nominee also said the work agreements that allow many state employees to perform their jobs remotely need reform as well.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
While the good-paying white-collar jobs in the ‘burbs are getting slashed, the substantial workforce Capital One inherited from Discover in the city of Chicago largely has been spared.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of jobs

Noun

Its approach focuses on the instructions a device uses to perform its functions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Midwives are medically trained to perform many of the same functions and procedures as doctors when women are having babies in low-risk situations.

— Kristin Wright, NPR, 11 Aug. 2026

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