task force

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Recent Examples of task force Vance, who chairs the administration’s anti-fraud task force, is scheduled to deliver remarks at Bangor International Airport, the White House and the Maine Republican Party announced. ABC News, 14 May 2026 In a report, the task force, which includes Collins, wrote that there was more potential contamination from the Los Angeles-area fires than a typical wildfire, that indoor standards are urgently needed and that there should be training and certification programs for key players in wildfire cleanup. Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 14 May 2026 Once that task force reached a fragile peace, its members pleaded with the legislature not to change any key points of their agreement. Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 14 May 2026 Since late September, hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement personnel tied to the task force have made traffic stops, served warrants and searched for fugitives in the majority Black city of about 610,000 people. Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for task force
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Noun
  • When Tomlin stepped away as coach in January, the team hired McCarthy, who first began coaching Rodgers in 2006.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 May 2026
  • The UConn baseball team had a chance to nail down the Big East title outright, but lost to Villanova, 9-6, at Elliot Ballpark in Storrs.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • The platoon mostly applied to shortstop, where Hyeseong Kim and Miguel Rojas split time, leaving Santiago Espinal as a utility option off the bench.
    Katie Woo, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Squad and platoon leaders can quickly launch drones to scout terrain, identify enemy positions and adjust movements without waiting for external support.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • The filmmaker’s research into viral colonies and group organisms revealed a fascinating parallel to human society.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • Fuel and fertilizer needed for the rice crop are just the latest necessities to become unaffordable in Rakhine state, which has been devastated by intense fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA), one of the many rebel groups in the country.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Wastewater is also reused for irrigation, and the hotel has also started recycling vegetable oils with an organization that transforms the waste into biodiesel.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026
  • Ready to take your organization up a notch?
    Sarah DiMuro, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • Chrissy Teigen and Mindy Kaling led the designer style brigade, while Priyanka Chopra Jonas found a way to honor her heritage in a custom Amit Aggarwal piece.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 11 May 2026
  • Their brigades are like one out of six that work.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Groups of passengers and crew disembarked from the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak on Sunday in Spain, where they were expected to be evacuated to their home countries and begin quarantining to prevent further spread of the disease.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • Over 25 Miami-Dade fire crews aided in rescuing the injured, finding some of the 11 in the water.
    Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • Storms that develop along the front could organize into clusters or lines, increasing the risk for damaging winds and large hail.
    Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • Specifically, the spacetime warped by the MACS J046 clusters magnifies light traveling from LAP1-B toward Earth by roughly 100-fold.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026

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“Task force.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/task%20force. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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