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chares

noun

variants or chars

plural of chare

as in duties

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Noun

Until a new lieutenant governor is named, state Senate President Nicholas Scutari will step in as acting governor if Sherrill is away or unable to perform her duties.

— MIKE CATALINI, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
On Monday, the five media networks that make up the White House television pool — NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, and CNN — decided to stop fulfilling their pool duties until the administration reversed course on its CNN ban.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of duties

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Those employees can then use tools like Claude Code or apps like Slack to engage agents across a variety of tasks, including data collection and insights, troubleshooting, and job-specific automation.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
The eight-piece set includes a solid spoon, slotted spoon, solid spatula, slotted spatula, pasta fork, deep ladle, meat carving fork, and skimmer to tackle everyday cooking tasks with ease.

— Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of tasks

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Nussbaum and her colleagues began passing out leaflets at Boston subway and bus stops to women heading to their jobs at downtown office buildings.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
The jobs nobody wants The job of deciding whether a Florida family can buy groceries this month or keep its health coverage falls to DCF’s frontline caseworkers, known as economic self-sufficiency specialists.

— Sharmila Venkatasubban, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of jobs

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While one of Young’s assignments during the Gemini III mission was to test space food packaging, according to the National Air and Space Museum, the meals were less than appealing.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026
Her math homework was never corrected, nor were her writing assignments.

— Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of assignments

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Critics have also focused on the role of international institutions like the World Bank, which has long supported some of these hydropower projects and their associated dams.

— Mamita Bhandari, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026
His Minderoo Foundation—named for the cattle ranch of his childhood—has since given about $28 million to Ukraine’s schools and agricultural projects, and to clearing land mines.

— Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of projects

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Their characters contended with sexism, inflexible schedules, unequal pay and the near impossibility of balancing work with responsibilities at home.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Menace watched much of it from another perspective, moving between his responsibilities as DJ, curator and organizer.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of responsibilities

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Pricing has yet to be announced, but Lunaz told us last year that most of its commissions regularly cost between $600,000 and $1 million.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2026
Seth MacFarlane curated and helped finance the commissions, drawing on his lifelong devotion to orchestral music and his extensive work with live musicians.

— Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of commissions

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Widespread outrage The lawsuit – and along with the lack of criminal charges and accusations of inadequate discipline – has drawn a wave of outrage.

— Hanna Park, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
While Cornell conducted an internal investigation, no criminal charges were brought against the accused at the time.

— Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

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