as in entrusting
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 tasking
Last year, New Jersey passed a law allowing digital driver's licenses and tasking the state's Motor Vehicle Commission with developing and implementing them.
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Joe Brandt, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
Such challenges come as domestic streaming subscriber growth has stalled in recent quarters, tasking Disney with the need to retain customers.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Oklahoma City’s absences did not affect its frontcourt, tasking Şengün with matching up against the imposing tandem of Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein.
—Varun Shankar, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2026
Talk about Front Range multi-tasking at its finest.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
Saleh signed a five-year contract to be the next Tennessee head coach on Thursday, tasking the 46-year-old with guiding the Titans back into contention following back-to-back 3-14 seasons.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
To get him out of his slump, Lucy tries to get Charlie more involved by appointing him director of the school Christmas play and tasking him with finding the perfect tree, while Linus shares the nativity story.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
There is an emergent view among cognitive psychologists that episodic memories are intrinsically visual in nature and, effectively, the brain is re-tasking the navigational parts that include knowing landmarks and their relative positions as a means of organizing memories.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
You’re known for multi-tasking on your films, having control over most every stage of production.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
Joe Brandt, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
Such challenges come as domestic streaming subscriber growth has stalled in recent quarters, tasking Disney with the need to retain customers.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Oklahoma City’s absences did not affect its frontcourt, tasking Şengün with matching up against the imposing tandem of Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein.
—Varun Shankar, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2026
Talk about Front Range multi-tasking at its finest.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
Saleh signed a five-year contract to be the next Tennessee head coach on Thursday, tasking the 46-year-old with guiding the Titans back into contention following back-to-back 3-14 seasons.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
To get him out of his slump, Lucy tries to get Charlie more involved by appointing him director of the school Christmas play and tasking him with finding the perfect tree, while Linus shares the nativity story.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
There is an emergent view among cognitive psychologists that episodic memories are intrinsically visual in nature and, effectively, the brain is re-tasking the navigational parts that include knowing landmarks and their relative positions as a means of organizing memories.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
You’re known for multi-tasking on your films, having control over most every stage of production.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tasking
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What to read next NASA also wants SpaceX and Blue Origin to fully demonstrate successful uncrewed touchdowns on the moon, and liftoffs back to lunar orbit, before entrusting the lives of astronauts aboard the landers.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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But whether the club starts entrusting him with more difficult situations or keeps using him in lower-leverage spots, Samaniego said he’ll be prepared no matter what.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
8 May 2026
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In 2018, the Latino Action Network and the New Jersey chapter of the NAACP, among other plaintiffs, filed a suit arguing that the state’s system of assigning students based on their residence has created racially segregated schools.—
Annie Ma,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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After four years of such calls, these front-line mental health care workers have learned how to diffuse such situations, in this case, providing contacts for local therapists likely to be able to meet quickly and assigning a case manager to start the process of restoring Medi-Cal coverage.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
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This Mosis padded laptop sleeve, $22, comes with a separate zippered carrying case that can hold your charging cables and accessories, like USB flash drives or external hard drives.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2026
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In 1993, federal prosecutors in Miami considered charging him and several other senior Cuban military officials with cocaine trafficking based on testimony from Colombian traffickers that emerged in the drug trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, the AP reported in 2006.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 May 2026
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Building a system worth trusting is the new leadership legacy.—
Rhett Power,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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In other words, the Redmond giant’s researchers had every incentive to find something positive about AI in the workplace, but instead found that blindly trusting LLMs to handle internal documents will almost certainly result in everything from errors to data deletion.—
Krystle Vermes,
Futurism,
14 May 2026
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“Tasking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tasking. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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