task forces

Definition of task forcesnext
plural of task force

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Noun
  • For many years, the top pick was determined by a coin flip between the worst teams in the Western and Eastern Conferences.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • When the teams met earlier this season on Black Friday, UConn easily handled Illinois in a 74-61 victory.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The report also noted that two separate client groups from Blackbird Mountain Guides — one a group of female friends with two guides, the other a trio of men with two guides — had been combined into a party of 15 for the trip out to the Castle Peak Snowpark trailhead beside I-80.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The vote marks the first time administrators have joined a strike alongside other LAUSD unions and aligns all three major labor groups in a coordinated potential walkout, raising the likelihood of widespread disruptions in the nation’s second-largest school district.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Pooling resources after 2018 lessons A variety of Democratic organizations are working together to pool campaign data and other resources.
    Nathalie Marie Palacios, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Porter has also worked as a meteorological technical subject matter expert in for both government and commercial organizations around the world.
    Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Artesh ground forces, which include tens of brigades, are positioned primarily to defend Iran’s borders, according to Carl’s report.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a powerful recapitulation of earlier moments in American military history, moments which make clear the blind alley down which Hegseth is charging his brigades at full speed.
    Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Outfield requires far more starting spots, and most of those available later in drafts are locked in platoons.
    Dalton Del Don, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • According to the Defense official, the Army plans to ramp up training over the next year, eventually sending in platoons of some 40 soldiers at a time to train.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Apocalypse movies are breeding grounds for unlikely posses, and this Australian zom-com from writer-director Abe Forsythe is no exception.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Others threatened the monkeys that wouldn’t let Punch join their posses.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Once soil health improves, many gardeners find that digging individual planting holes is sufficient for establishing crops.
    Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
  • These cylinders also support cucumbers, bean plants and other climbing crops.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Codas, or groupings of clicks, were longer during the birth and then became shorter after the newborn emerged, the authors wrote in Scientific Reports.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Task forces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/task%20forces. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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