task forces

plural of task force

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Noun
  • The Mets, being one of the worst offensive teams in baseball, don’t often come back from large deficits.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
  • Among their polyglot ranks are search-and-rescue specialists, doctors, canine teams and structural engineers.
    Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Noun
  • Large friendship groups can be a really cool experience, but can also pose challenges in terms of the depths of intimacy that can be cultivated with each person.
    Joy Harden Bradford, AJC.com, 2 July 2026
  • Its beachfront villas suit multigenerational families and friend groups alike, with activities ranging from oyster roasts to horseback riding, shooting, golf, biking, kayaking, boating and fishing.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Dias said that backers of noncitizen voting need to build a broad coalition — grassroots organizations, election officials, lawyers for the city — before taking the proposal to voters.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • The prince is the official royal patron of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and also the Patron of the Football Association (FA), England's governing body for soccer organizations.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • The efforts are partly funded through a partnership between Bunge Foundation and IBAMA to support training and equipment for up to 40 Indigenous brigades across five states in the Cerrado and the Amazon.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 June 2026
  • Though the reality is more complex, as Cuba also uses the brigades to raise funds for the government.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • In the coming years, as Erik Neander took over the baseball operations department, the Rays were at the forefront of analytics with defensive shifts, aggressive platoons, utilizing openers, creating a menagerie of arm slots in the bullpen and, yes, prioritizing exit velocity.
    John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
  • 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
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
  • For fruit crops, Pritts explains that offspring are often lower in quality than either parent.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 27 June 2026
  • Under the Biden administration, federal taxpayers paid farmers billions of dollars to stop planting crops, but that's considered a short-term solution too expensive to maintain indefinitely.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026
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“Task forces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/task%20forces. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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